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  Review by Marcissus ★★★ 1

  Imagine you have an interesting idea, and the studio wants a 100 minute film from you. Only problem is, your idea only fills up about 30 minutes before it's exhausted.

  
  There is a solid thriller in here somewhere, but it's bogged down with so much unnecessary shite that it doesn't even know what it's trying to be anymore. There can only be so many twists and turns before you're in an entirely different city. There's only so much meandering I can take and if it's at the point where I'm thinking ''Can we just, like, move on?'' then the eagle has already landed my friend. I will say I enjoyed the direction, the blurring, colour, frantic camerawork, more screenwipes than…

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  Review by Matt ★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Far more complicated than it should be, but James McAvoy shoots a guy's dick off, which eliminates most of the movie's issues for me.

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  Review by Simone ★★½ 12

  It's a very bizarre experience for me to come out of a film so high on its superficially engaging effects that I'm ready to sing its praises, but days later all I want to do is rip it apart. Trance made me feel like I was watching an intelligent and sophisticated thriller. It's only after some distance that I realized there's nothing left to figure out, no questions to ask, nothing to discuss. It just sort of sits there like a really pretty but empty box with the word "MYSTERY" written on it.

  Toward the end, it reveals everything you need to know or wondered up until that point and then shows a bunch of repeated scenes from earlier in…

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  Review by 20oldboy03 ★★★★★ 8

  Beginnen wir mit drei Bildern. Sehen wir uns drei Geschichten an. Drei Zeitepochen im Einfangen des selbigen Genres. Stellen wir uns vor sie hin, begehen sie zu lesen, unsere Sinne auf sie zu projizieren, die bekommende Reflektion zu verarbeiten. Sehen wir.

  
  Das erste Bild ist gefasst in einem Rahmen. Einem Rahmen mit den Maßen 4:3. Er bildet die Einfassung, fasst die Rahmenhandlung seiner Zeit wieder. Das Bild was wir, die Hände hinunter unserem Rücken verschränkt, sehen, ist arm an Farbe, es ist das Spiel zweier Gegensetzte, von Licht und Schatten, von Gut und Böse – könnte der Kritiker in einem meinen – von Positiv und Negativ.

  Das Bild ist geprägt von massiven Holzmöbeln. Schnörkellosen Zeitdokumenten der Biederheit ihrer Epoche. Gardinen…

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  Review by iana ★★½

  i'm james mcavoy crying when he touches rosario dawson

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  Review by Wood ★★ 3

  Danny Boyle Presents: Memento for dumb people.

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  Review by DNA cinephile🏳️‍🌈 ★★★½

  Trance. 2013. Directed by Danny Boyle.

  Trance is not Danny Boyle’s best work but it is an entertaining neo-noir concerning a criminal suffering from amnesia. Nevertheless, this is an underrated film. No, this is not Memento (2000) level material but, it has a parallel thesis. Art auctioneering combined with a gambling habit that is spiraling out control leaves James McAvoy (Simon) seeking a way out. The group of criminals he gets connected with are ruthless and employ a hypnotherapist to navigate Simon’s inability to locate the Goya painting. Is this the plot? Or, are there other lines that were not revealed. Criminals with amnesia is a topic that can be brilliant in the case of the Nolan brothers. With Danny…

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  Review by Mary Conti ★★ 6

  Gentlemen, let's talk about structure.

  Structure is the number one thing any film requires, even if there isn't a narrative to speak of. It's just the way the brain works. Even when you watch one film and there are two separate plot lines, you try to find the relationship between the two, and when they converge. You see this a lot in multiple thread ensemble films.

  In straightforward films like, say, Raiders of the Lost Ark, there is a clear structure of cause and effect that creates a momentum, and an internal consistency. It's also not just in the way a narrative plays out. It's in the characters and their motivations. It's in the dialogue (even lines of dialogue should…

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  Review by Peaceful Stoner ★★★ 13

  Danny Boyle’s Trance is very engaging but it fails because it tries to be too smart for its own good and too explicit so as to dumb down the viewer’s intelligence.

  The first 50 minutes of the film were so exhilarating and is without a doubt the best part of the film. The theme felt similar to Inception. Even the setting of a heist and the group formation looked similar. But Boyle’s thoughts and presentation are always special, different and minimalistic. The film is powered by some great camerawork and editing which Boyle’s relies heavily on to take his stories on to the next level. Those two departments in Boyle’s films do so much to cover up for the relatively…

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  Review by Ben Peterson ★★★½

  This movie still makes no sense and is still very cool. Cassel for life.

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  Review by DirkH ★★ 9

  I like Boyle's films. I particularly like the energy he brings to them, usually making them better than they have any right to be. But when the script of a film is as bad as Trance's, not even that energy can save it.

  This is not a complicated film. It is a poorly written film that tries to be smart while all it does is obfuscate the fact that it is a simple, uninteresting and bland story. Well, it tries to but fails miserably.

  A great mystery is like solving a puzzle from which someone has taken away a couple of pieces. The problem with Trance is that the pieces that were taken away are inconsequential and trite. Not only…

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  Review by ty ★★

  This was so confusing the only thing I understand is that James McAvoy is really talented