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"Intrusion" is the latest middling Netflix thriller to hit the streaming service, this one coming with the angle of being more about a marriage's problems than a home invasion. Call it "Scenes from a Marriage in a Netflix Thriller," but then again, those are generous qualifiers. The scenes from this marriage run flat, the thrills even more so. 

Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green star in the movie from director Adam Salky as Meera and Henry, a married couple who just built a slick, expansive, modern home in New Mexico. They return from a date night, which includes playing Scrabble and drinking wine, only to find the place ransacked. No matter for Henry—he fixes up the place while she goes back to her job as a youth counselor. But then another home invasion! This time it's much worse, with dead bodies made possible by a secret gun Henry had been hiding. It's also when the movie starts to show its limits as a thriller trying to BS its way through the moments that matter most, with weird cutting and sometimes sideways camera angles that obscure the action.  

This scene happens about 20 minutes into "Intrusion," which is beyond the cut-off point that Netflix requires for a viewing to be considered official. It's a downhill coast from there, as the script combines mysteries that are neither tactfully planted nor answered in all that surprising of a fashion. Who were the thieves that came from a trailer park, and what did they want? Why did Henry have a gun hidden away?  There's also a missing girl in the mix. There are many curious pieces in play, and the movie handles them as bluntly as lazily as possible, unable to sow a sense of distrust beyond relying on ugly class bias. 

"Intrusion" benefits most from when you can still squint and see the underlying anguish that went into the story and must have been part of the pitch when Chris Sparling (" Buried ") threw it together. As various mysteries add up, the relationship dynamics become more of a question—warmth leaves, and distrust, control, and lies settle in. Everything is still played very on the nose, given how blunt this mystery can only be, but it's the thematic visibility here that briefly gives it a bit of soul. 

But for a movie about these two lovers and the stakes of their bond, it's got a major problem with its performances. Marshall-Green is a boring, lazily scrawled question mark in this role that never makes him all that endearing or seem sincere; the evolution of his character is not rewarding. Even more unfortunate is how the movie traps Pinto in a series of connect-the-dot scenes of her snooping around, looking aghast at images on computer screens, or bungling through a trailer park. She would be more interesting to watch drive a car for 90 minutes instead of trying to make the dull mechanics of this mystery appear more outlandish than they actually are.  

Even on a more basic Netflix level, on the standard of whether the movie will hold your attention and make you glad you stayed, "Intrusion" is a bust. It proves only slightly stronger at piling on mysteries more than giving fulfilling answers to them, especially as its script has about a half-dozen too many conceits. There are simply too many moments here in which the characters, who we are supposed to care about in some form, are conveniently dumb. The kind of faint, cheap thrills that make apparent how everyone is a pawn here—not just the characters, but the subscribers too. 

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Nick Allen is the former Senior Editor at RogerEbert.com and a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association.

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Intrusion’ on Netflix, in Which Freida Pinto Can’t Make a Generic Psychological Thriller Interesting

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It’s pretty much Halloween season, which means Netflix is dropping palletfuls of chillers and thrillers into their bottomless content pit. Case in point, Intrusion , director Adam Salky’s ( I Smile Back ) psychological home-invasion-slash-nuptial-drama starring Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green. “Freida Pinto,” I can hear you thinking to yourself, “I like her!” Me too. But it may take more than her charismatic presence to save this movie from Netflix’s ever-growing scrap heap of vaguely Hitchcockian generica.

INTRUSION : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

The Gist: Meet Meera (Pinto). You’ll like her: She’s a youth counselor who survived a cancer scare. We meet her as she jogs through the New Mexico scrub desert, then returns to her gigantically sprawling ultramodern home that looks like someone dropped a fancy new orthodontist’s office complex way, way out in the middle of Roadrunner-and-Coyote country. She showers off and thinks she may feel a lump beneath her breast, but the doctor confirms it’s just some residual scar tissue. We feel relieved, because Meera seems like a perfectly nice human being who doesn’t deserve to suffer.

Meet Henry (Marshall-Green). You’ll hate him: He’s Meera’s husband. He’s an architect who designed the living crap out of their home, with the type of harsh, sharp-angle, museum aesthetic that has us wondering if they sleep on a concrete slab. (Note: They don’t. It’s a regular mattress with a nice, cushy duvet on it.) By the look of the place, he’s quite successful at architecting — I mean, they can AFFORD things. Henry is a little clenched in the teeth and a little uptight in the butthole, but he says all the perfect things to Meera, like how much he loves her and supports her and if the cancer has returned, he’s here for her, 100 percent, unbudgingly faithful, emotionally and physically. He Brylcreems the crap outta his hair and wears big glasses and hearing him speak and seeing the way he carries himself is so very Henry, portrait of a serial killer.

They’ve been living in the sharp-cornered manse for only two months after moving from Boston, hoping to get away from the bustle; a housewarming party is in the works, and if you’re considering a gift, I recommend some of those child-friendly stick-on bumpers for the countertops, so nobody runs into one and severs an artery. They go out on a date and come home to find the place ransacked. She’s spooked, but he’s calm. The cops come and a cowboy-hatted detective (Robert John Burke) prods Henry about why such a fancy-ass place has rattly plumbing and no security system. NO REASON, OFFICER DETECTIVE SIR, THERE’S NO WAY HENRY IS HIDING SOMETHING, I MEAN WHAT HAS HE GOT TO HIDE? NOTHING HA HA HA NOTHING AT ALL.

Then another break-in occurs, except they’re home this time. Henry pulls a pistol from a Ziploc hidden in a houseplant as Meera’s jaw drops. And then he drops the intruders, putting a couple in the morgue and another in the ICU — just some dirty blue-collar guys from the trailer park over yonder — and he seems perfectly fine with it the next day. Time to clean up the blood, no biggie! Understandably, Meera’s traumatized, partly because of the [INSERT TITLE OF MOVIE HERE], and partly because she wonders if she really knows the guy who’s been her husband for a dozen years. Meanwhile — and perhaps it’s because of our objective viewpoint in comparison to her clouded subjectivity — we sure seem to know exactly who this guy is. Is it really that easy? Quoth John 3:16: NO SPOILERS.

What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: Intrusion is kind of The Gift , Straw Dogs or Gone Girl (or, gulp, Double Jeopardy ) with a bit of Don’t Breathe or Parasite ‘s location-as-a-character aesthetic mixed in — and then made as bland and straight-faced as possible.

Performance Worth Watching: (Sees Pinto’s previous credit is Hillbilly Elegy ) Welp, maybe her next film will be good! (Sees Pinto’s next film is titled Needle in a Timestack ) WELP.

Memorable Dialogue: “What are you?”, Meera asks.

“Your husband!”, Henry replies.

Sex and Skin: None.

Our Take: Intrusion is a flavorless title for a flavorless movie destined to blend right into the endless Netflix menu scroll. If you should happen to stumble upon Incursion and have no expectations whatsoever and give it a go, you may find yourself compelled to see it through just to feed the desire to find out what happens, even though you really don’t care about what happens, the hallmark of a movie in which the characters are puppets of the plot.

Intrusion is at the very least slickly directed, brisk of pace and therefore somewhat mindlessly watchable. Weighing it down is the screenplay, which is a collection of plot devices, convenient circumstances, coincidences, cliches and supporting players popping up out of nowhere to explain things and keep things moving lest the movie linger on a word or action for a moment and accidentally develop a character. It isn’t particularly convincing, the way everything Henry says sounds like a false alibi, or the way Meera fiddlefarts around a trailer park searching for clues about what he’s up to, and finding a couple — along with some crass stereotypes about the kind of people who live in trailer parks. Maybe it intends to say something about the class divide, but more accurately, it’s just moronic and insensitive.

Intrusion sometimes has the light whiff of an insightful domestic marital drama, wth maybe a brief thematic nod to Rebecca , but beneath that spritz of air freshener lurks an unavoidable eau de bullcrap . Intrusion telegraphs every plot development to the point where we brace ourselves for the rug to be pulled out from under us in grandiose fashion. But the twist here is, there is no twist. It’s linear and obvious and simplistic. Wrap your head around THAT one, you movie watcher you!

Our Call: SKIP IT. Intrusion is dull and unambitious. It could have been insightful or it could have been trashy, but instead it’s painfully mediocre, a vapid melange of dozens of movies that came before it. Shoulda titled it Interchangeable .

Will you stream or skip the Freida Pinto psychological thriller #Intrusion on @netflix ? #SIOSI — Decider (@decider) September 23, 2021

John Serba is a freelance writer and film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Read more of his work at johnserbaatlarge.com or follow him on Twitter: @johnserba .

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Intrusion review – Netflix home invasion thriller passes muster

A vacant performance from Freida Pinto can’t quite sink a mostly enjoyable, if mostly familiar, domestic mystery

T here’s an adequately scattered trail of breadcrumbs running throughout the brisk Netflix thriller Intrusion that starts us off in one subgenre before leading us somewhere entirely different. It’s not that either place is particularly original or that the reveal is all that revealing (your overall enjoyment will depend on how much deja vu you’re able to stomach in one sitting) but there’s simple, low-stakes fun to be had along the way, a passable Friday night potboiler that will boil away to nothing as soon as the credits come into view.

That seems to be just about enough for most who log on to Netflix these days, searching for something to idly double-screen, and the streamer’s much-ballyhooed year of original films (one a week!) has so far brought us some slightly above average TV movies with stars you vaguely know doing things you’ve vaguely seen before. That’s exactly what we have with Intrusion, as Freida Pinto (you know, from Slumdog Millionaire) and Logan Marshall-Green (you know, from Prometheus) star as a reliable thriller staple: the handsome heterosexual couple who have the perfect home, jobs, relationship and skin. Meera and Henry have moved to a small town into an extravagant modern house that he himself designed but is their presence unsettling the locals? Is that why one night, they arrive home to find that someone has broken in?

Initially, it’s just a robbery but the next time, it’s something far worse and the couple find themselves fighting for their lives against a group of masked invaders. Henry manages to gain control and shoots them but they’re then faced with the murky aftermath and a story that doesn’t add up.

Post-2008’s insidiously potent The Strangers, home invasion thrillers have been swiftly piling up, a cheap, simple subgenre that appeals to our base fear of feeling unsafe in the one place we should feel safest. What’s interesting about Intrusion is that the home invasion is only the beginning and writer Chris Sparling (whose genre credits go high – Buried – and mostly low – Lakewood , ATM) looks at what happens when the pieces are then picked up and sifted through. Meera’s sifting is the most entertaining element of the film, as we play detective along with her, rifling through drawers, utilising tech and, as the tagline suggests, asking questions she perhaps doesn’t want answered. Where Meera ends up is no great surprise (I called it in the trailer and then confirmed it in my head within the first 15 minutes, no medal thanks) but it’s a twist that takes the film to an appealingly nasty place, edging from thriller to horror with an effectively gnarly finale.

It’s propulsive enough to work in the moment although our investment teeters thanks to a vacant central performance from a lethargic Pinto, an actor who often struggles to connect with her material and then, in turn, her audience. It’s a shame as the character’s swift, gruelling descent from having to losing it all could have allowed another actor to add some emotional heft to an otherwise mechanical story. Marshall-Green is a more confident presence but there’s a distinct lack of chemistry between the pair and so again, we’re kept surface-level throughout. Like most of Netflix’s output, it’s plagued by that all-too-familiar visual flatness (it’s not a movie, it’s a Netflix movie ) so while the house and its occupants possess an otherworldly beauty, the film surrounding them is predictably pedestrian-looking, director Adam Salky failing to deviate from the dog-eared Netflix playbook.

As yet more content, it’s an agreeable option, the simple A-to-B-to-C plot proving involving enough for us to not exactly care what happens but at least see how unpleasant it all gets. The streak of perversity at Intrusion’s centre nudges it above the norm, briefly waking us up before we sleepily click on something else.

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Despite Pinto and Marshall-Green’s fine performances, Intrusion is frustratingly derivative and predictable to watch.

Full Review | Jul 20, 2023

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Intrusion is predictable...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2022

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Intrusion passes off lack of ambition as ambition itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 26, 2022

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Intrusion doesn't have much in the way of thrills, chills, or big mystery. Its secrets are predictable to where the viewer is always multiple steps ahead of the narrative.

Full Review | Feb 22, 2022

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A mystery film that's so lazy and mediocre, its easy to figure out who's the chief villain, long before the movie is over. The climactic showdown scene permanently sinks Intrusion into the cesspool where vapid and generic thrillers are quickly forgotten.

Full Review | Feb 14, 2022

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This is a familiar, shopworn story but Pinto works it as best she can.

Full Review | Oct 12, 2021

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It suffers from a painfully predictable plot, but that doesn't necessarily mean you won't have a decent time with it.

Full Review | Oct 11, 2021

If you want to watch a thriller that has unforeseeable twists and turns, Intrusion would not be what you're looking for.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 4, 2021

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Despite fine work from Freida Pinto as the curious wife in peril, the derivative Netflix film only frustrates.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 2, 2021

Freida Pinto uses restrained means to convey despair and determination. Much of what swirls around her is so predictable and laboured that she does not have a chance to deflect Intrusion from its dogged pursuit of mediocrity.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 1, 2021

intrusion netflix movie review

While there are quality jump scares and Marshall-Green gives it his all, "Intrusion" fails to deliver on much of its promise, stumbling when it should be sprinting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 30, 2021

intrusion netflix movie review

The only element that makes this film watchable is Logan Marshall-Green. He delivers on the physicality, the mannerisms...I just wish he was in a better film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/10 | Sep 30, 2021

This is an entertaining, if not exactly groundbreaking, thriller from the "This Dream Home Is Not What It Seems" file.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 28, 2021

intrusion netflix movie review

For the amount of time it takes either half of this couple to figure out what the other is up to, they actually become the target audience for this stale exercise that just about anybody will have solved well before its conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 27, 2021

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A woefully predictable thriller made watchable thanks to taut direction by Adam Salky, and solid performances from Frieda Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 27, 2021

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Like You was loaded into a computer program that froze but forced us to watch the glitchy result anyway.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Sep 23, 2021

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A flat and unambitious film that squanders its potential and the solid foundation built in its first act. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Sep 22, 2021

Intrusion is a flavorless title for a flavorless movie destined to blend right into the endless Netflix menu scroll.

intrusion netflix movie review

'Intrusion' is a forgettably derivative home invasion thriller that, to quote a famous Springfield resident, will make you feel nothin' at all.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 22, 2021

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More than a home invasion thriller, Intrusion is actually a relationship drama disguised behind a balaclava.

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No positive messages in dream-home-turns-nightmare

Movie centered on upscale married couple with succ

Meera is an Indian American woman who has just mov

Home invaders are shot and killed. Woman who has b

Woman shown in a shower, filmed from the back, no

Infrequent profanity, including "bulls--t," "s--t,

Uber mentioned by name.

Wine drinking on a dinner date. Cocktail drinking

Parents need to know that Intrusion is a 2021 thriller in which a successful married couple move into their dream home, only to discover horrific truths in the aftermath of a home invasion. Expect some thriller violence throughout and jump scares galore. A missing woman is discovered chained to a chair and…

Positive Messages

No positive messages in dream-home-turns-nightmare thriller.

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Movie centered on upscale married couple with successful careers, but all is not what it seems.

Diverse Representations

Meera is an Indian American woman who has just moved to a small New Mexico town with her husband. Some people of color at a housewarming party.

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Home invaders are shot and killed. Woman who has been kidnapped is shown being dragged by the hair by her assailant. Character bludgeoned in forehead with a skyscraper figurine, killed. A missing woman is shown traumatized, tied up in a chair, and held prisoner. Woman tied up in a secret lair. Fighting with punches and kicks. Jump scares galore, including a barking dog, and flashbacks to a home invasion. Car accident, no injuries.

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Wine drinking on a dinner date. Cocktail drinking at a party; husband says that his wife has had too many mojitos as a way to explain her disappearance from a housewarming party.

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Parents need to know that Intrusion is a 2021 thriller in which a successful married couple move into their dream home, only to discover horrific truths in the aftermath of a home invasion. Expect some thriller violence throughout and jump scares galore. A missing woman is discovered chained to a chair and traumatized, and another woman is soon also tied up with her mouth sealed shut with tape. Home invaders are shot and killed. A character is bludgeoned in the forehead with a figurine and killed; some blood. A woman is shown being dragged by her hair as she screams. Fighting with punches and kicks. Some language, including "bulls--t," "s--t," "pissed," "damn," and "bitch." Wine and cocktail drinking. One of the lead characters gets into a car accident after being a distracted driver. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails .

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What's the Story?

In INTRUSION, Meera ( Freida Pinto ) and Henry Parsons ( Logan Marshall-Green ) have just left Boston to move into their dream home near a small town in New Mexico. Henry, a successful architect, designed the home, and it seems the perfect place for the couple to begin a new life after Meera's recent breast cancer scare. Moved in, Meera resumes her career as a therapist, and the couple seem to be living an ideal life. These illusions are soon shattered when, after a dinner date, Meera and Henry return to find that their home has been broken into and vandalized, with their smartphones and laptop stolen. Meera is traumatized by the robbery, and Henry takes steps to secure the home, including installing a high-tech home security system. While they try to settle back into normalcy, one night while they are sleeping, the home invaders return. They tie up Meera, but after Henry frees her, she learns that Henry keeps a gun hidden in one of her plants, and as she escapes to the car, he kills them. While talking to the police after the home invasion, the investigators tell Henry and Meera that a family of career criminals on the poor side of town were behind the home invasion, and that also the daughter of the family went missing one month ago. As the discovery of the gun has already created an air of mistrust between Meera and Henry, they try to pick up the pieces and move on with their lives. Meera begins to harbor new suspicions. After he forgets his wallet while driving to the store, Meera follows him and discovers that he wasn't actually going to the store. A look at Henry's GPS history reveals other visits to out-of-the-way and very questionable locales. While Henry tries to put Meera's mind at ease, further investigations begin to reveal some ugly truths, and Meera must discover what really happened with the home invasion, and how nothing in her life is what it seems.

Is It Any Good?

This is an entertaining, if not exactly groundbreaking, thriller from the "This Dream Home Is Not What It Seems" file. Intrusion has its moments, as the plot twists twist and the jump scares scare. Suspension of disbelief frays but doesn't completely rip away. Successful architect Henry has designed a dream home for himself and his wife Meera as they escape the "rat race" of Boston to live on the far-enough outskirts of a New Mexico hamlet. It's easy for the audience to get as wrapped up in the seemingly good taste and luxury of this dream home, even as it starts to gradually sink in that it doesn't have much warmth, as it's all angles and gray, as impersonal as an Ikea showroom. Soon enough, this house becomes as tiresome as the close-up jump scares of Meera chopping produce at the kitchen island, and so by the time the third act story payoffs unfurl with visual menace and discordant horror movie synth tones, the movie ends as it teeters on the edge of wearing out its welcome.

The quality of the acting is what keeps viewers engaged, even as you're likely to later question plot points that seem a little too forced. Meera, who is traumatized and anxious through much of the movie, suddenly finds the strength to enter a sketchy trailer park, break into a trailer, and steal some mail. They've just moved to this small New Mexico town, but already seem to have a large group of friends, friends who look like they stepped out of advertisement banners for trendy upscale condominiums under construction. There are other examples, but in spite of this, it's an entertaining thriller.

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Movie Details

  • On DVD or streaming : September 22, 2021
  • Cast : Logan Marshall-Green , Freida Pinto , Robert John Burke
  • Director : Adam Salky
  • Inclusion Information : Female actors, Indian/South Asian actors
  • Studio : Netflix
  • Genre : Thriller
  • Run time : 92 minutes
  • MPAA rating : NR
  • Last updated : February 17, 2023

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Intrusion – Netflix Review (4/5)

Posted by Karina "ScreamQueen" Adelgaard | Sep 22, 2021 | Read Time 4 min.

Intrusion – Netflix Review (4/5)

INTRUSION on Netflix is a new psychological thriller with a horror-fueled ending. Its runtime right around the 90-minute mark makes for a sharp story with good pacing. Even the slow-burn moments feel very intense. Read our full Intrusion movie review here!

INTRUSION is a new Netflix thriller starring Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green. To be very honest, I was not expecting much from this Netflix movie based on its trailer. Fortunately, trailers have left me underwhelmed a lot recently, resulting in the actual movies being pleasant surprises.

This movie is yet another example of this. And yes, that means it is very much worth your time. Sure, you  will  guess some elements, but then again, this isn’t a mystery per say. You’re in the shoes of the main protagonist (Freida Pinto) and experience the psychological horror of her life right along with her.

Continue reading our Intrusion movie review below and find the movie on Netflix now.

Strong lead actors

With Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green in the lead roles, the new Netflix movie Intrusion  is off to a good start. In Intrusion , Freida Pinto plays Meera, the kind, trusting, and loving wife of Henry (Logan Marshall-Green). Meera and Henry have just recently moved into their new house – designed by Henry – but soon things start to go awry.

They experience a home invasion and instantly, their new house away from everything and everyone doesn’t feel as safe anymore. Still, Henry is a protective and supportive husband who always tries his very best to keep Meera happy. It’s all very idyllic but we quickly learn that they’ve had a rough past.

ANOTHER NETFLIX MOVIE FOCUSED ON A HOUSE Check out out review of the Netflix thriller Aftermath  here >

As a married couple of 12 years, Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green are very believable from the start. If they hadn’t worked, neither could the movie. Of course, these two are also very strong actors in their own rights.

From Freida Pinto’s strong feature film debut in  Slumdog Millionaire  (2008), she has been staying busy. Including huge budget movies such as Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the Hulu series The Path . And we’ve long had a soft spot for Logan Marshall-Green.

From  Devil  (2010) , which was based on an M. Night Shyamalan story, to Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation  (2015) , and Leigh Whannell’s  Upgrade  (2018). Logan Marshall-Green always makes a huge impression. Usually in very different ways, since he is the perfect chameleon as an actor. Something that works perfectly for Intrusion .

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The strong ending of  Intrusion on Netflix

Far too often, the ending of a psychological thriller can ruin the overall experience. For the new Netflix thriller Intrusion , I found the actual ending to be strong and tight in terms of twists and development.

I experienced one clear moment of irritation. You know the “why are you running up the stairs, when you should be running out the front door”-moment described perfectly in Scream . That was it. And yes, having just one real moment of that kind of irritation is virtually a blessing for me.

Also, there’s a strong follow-up to the irritating moment when you feel the character could have saved themselves but didn’t. You’ll see!

Watch Intrusion on Netflix now!

Adam Salky is the director of  Intrusion with the screenplay written by Chris Sparling. For me, this is a stellar combination.  Previously, Adam Salky has directed a lot of short films (and I Smile Back  from 2015 ). Plus he has a few movies in pre-production. Including the horror-thriller The Ceremony .

Chris Sparling has directed a few movies ( including the 2016 horror-thriller Mercy ), but I think his work as a screenwriter tends to be much stronger. He wrote the claustrophobic Ryan Reynold’s movie Buried (2010) and worked on the screenplay for El aviso ( The Warning ). Both are movies with simple but very efficient plots. Much like this one.

DO CHECK OUT Our review of the Spanish mystery thriller El aviso here >

With a crisp runtime of around 92 minutes, you won’t have to wait too long for things to evolve in strange and suspicious ways. Overall, this is very much a psychological thriller that offers an ending that would work perfectly for a horror movie as well. 

I would give this movie 3½ out of 5, but since we don’t do halves here at Heaven of Horror, I am bumping this one up to four. There’s just more going for it than against it. A lot more! Especially in terms of story and acting.

Intrusion  is out on Netflix from September 22, 2021.

Director: Adam Salky Writer: Chris Sparling Stars: Freida Pinto, Logan Marshall-Green, Robert John Burke, Sarah Minnich

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‘Intrusion’ Review: Freida Pinto Stars in a Netflix Home Invasion Thriller That Could Have Been Much More

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There’s an incredibly interesting story lurking somewhere beneath “ Intrusion ,” about the way mistrust and paranoia can slowly chip away at a marriage. The film, however, eschews this tale in favor of something a little more rote, and a little bit trashier. It’s a fun watch, to be sure; as a home invasion movie of sorts, it has a number of thrilling moments, and lead actors Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green each do a stellar job with what they’re given. However, the final product also exudes trepidation about its most intriguing aesthetic and narrative elements — ideas which may have only enhanced its genre sensibilities, had the filmmakers further pursued them.

Married couple Meera (Pinto) and Henry (Marshall-Green), a psychiatrist and an architect, met in college in Boston, but their fancy new duplex sits in rural New Mexico. Per the film’s dialogue, their big move was owed at least in part to the wide-open landscape, which director Adam Salky and cinematographer Eric Lin present in picturesque fashion, even if they never quite capture the relationship between the characters and the space around them. How they feel about their surroundings is (or ought to be) paramount, in a story where their sense of comfort is thrown out of balance by a violent late-night break-in, which results in Henry shooting one of the perpetrators dead, using a gun Meera didn’t know he owned.

What initially follows is an excavation of the encounter’s fallout, between Meera’s lingering PTSD, a police investigation about the wider circumstances of the attack, and the couple’s increasing disconnect. Their secrets, both large and small, begin slowly chipping away at what seems like a happy relationship. Meera, who’s recovered from breast cancer in the past, hasn’t been entirely forthcoming about recent developments, while Henry ceases to open about his nightly whereabouts. However, this carefully crafted character drama soon switches gears, when fewer details about the case seem to add up, and Meera begins investigating a number of leads, including some related to her husband, and the way he built and designed their house.

It’s here that the film’s construction begins to feel half-baked, compared to what came before. In earlier scenes, where the focus is squarely on Meera’s doubts and silent realizations, the camera weaves and tilts as it moves through space or pushes in on her, magnifying her lingering sensations in the process. However, once the film takes on a mystery bent, its focus on physical details is awkward, misplaced, and worst of all, noncommittal. The camera stands mostly still as Meera reacts to addresses, logos, and other bits of information that appear to mean something to her, but few of these things are ever established for the audience, and so their meaning remains vague for unbearably lengthy stretches of time, especially as the plot begins to displace most of the character drama. Pinto is even shot in profile for at least one of these sequences, which really doesn’t help unearth what’s meant to be happening (emotionally or logistically). Were it not for the film’s suitably jagged and propulsive music by Alex Heffes, which hints at how all this information might eventually fall into place, such scenes of discovery would be entirely perfunctory.

It also seems, at times, like director Salky and screenwriter Chris Sparling are left unaware of some of the added cultural baggage (and opportunity for an even deeper marital wedge) that arises thanks to Freida Pinto’s presence. It’s unclear whether Meera was always meant to be an Indian character, or whether her name and backstory — a single, stray line about her having moved to the U.S. for college — came about after Pinto was cast, but her foreignness (in general) and her Indianness (in specific) lead to a couple of interesting dynamics.

For one thing, the presence of a gun in the story is a big deal, but its sudden emergence is tied only to questions of Henry’s dishonesty when it comes to owning a firearm, rather than what that firearm might represent to Meera as a non-American caught in a distinctly American story. She’s a character to whom the very idea of a gun might, at least in theory, be more aberrant or shocking, than if she had grown up in the United States, where guns are common, and while this story beat is within the realm of possibility, instead, the gun soon fades from conversation.

Additionally, Pinto’s performance — specifically, her accent — also speaks to Meera’s sense of discomfort within the story. As a woman who’s spent time in the U.S. but whose speech retains elements of Indianness, her delivery is often restrained and measured, as if she’s constantly considering the right syllable to hit, and the exact balance of Indian and American enunciation in her voice, the way she might if she and Henry had only been dating a short while (Marshall-Green, meanwhile, feels totally at ease when he speaks). But while Meera’s dialogue frequently searches for the right place to land, her face tells a different story. Pinto’s performance is exacting and precise in quiet, personal moments — especially moments of doubt and contemplation —as if who Meera is in her own private world is at a disconnect from who she is around Henry (though the film never explores this dichotomy).

Marshall-Green’s work is equally nuanced, as a man who constantly needs to care for someone else, both for selfish and selfless reasons. His performance is remarkably balanced. There’s something unsettling about Henry; the way he concedes arguments feels ever-so-slightly resentful, and the way he peeks out from behind his unassuming glasses is like he’s surveying the world around him.

Unfortunately, Henry’s bespectacled appearance, coupled with the film’s home invasion plot and some other key details, also brings to mind the far superior film “Straw Dogs” by Sam Peckinpah, which “Intrusion” feels like it’s trying to subvert in several ways. It doesn’t have the thematic heft or careful craftsmanship necessary to do so, but it has just enough by way of excitement, action, and winding turns to be worth a watch.

“Intrusion” is now available to stream on Netflix .

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This article discusses the Netflix film Intrusion (2021) and will not contain spoilers.

Soapy, trashing, and thrilling. If those are qualities you want from a film, Intrusion may be for you!

In just over 90 minutes, Intrusion tells the story of Meera (Freida Pinto), who, after her home is targeted for home invasions two times, begins to suspect what the reasoning behind it could be. The major downside of Intrusion is that the answer to her question is clearly evident after half an hour. However, don’t let that put you off too much. With this type of film, the trashy drama that follows is what will keep the audience interested enough (hopefully) to watch until the end. 

The vibe with Intrusion is that the audience should always be on the edge of their seats and not fully aware of what will happen next. Unfortunately, it doesn’t always do that. It’s predictable, and nothing of what develops on-screen is shocking.  But on a brighter note, it has enough action and excitement to keep you hooked. The cast performs well in their roles, and even though you  just know  how the film will conclude, anyone that is watching will likely be curious enough, just to see how it all ends.

The certificate for Intrusion is 12, and that could be purely why the film doesn’t electrify the screen, as in other films such as The Strangers , Saw, or even A Classic Horror Story . But the positive aspect of the 12 certificate is that it could be an easy film to watch with any teenage relatives in the household, without any worry about high levels of violence and/or sex/nudity.

Still, Intrusion does what it says on the tin. It will easily pass the 90-minute runtime for those watching. While it may not be remembered long after finishing, there’s enough to warrant interest throughout the duration.

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‘Intrusion’: Latest thriller at an isolated house isn’t remotely entertaining

Despite fine work from freida pinto as the curious wife in peril, the derivative netflix film only frustrates..

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Meera (Freida Pinto) has to flee bad guys in the massive home her husband built in “Intrusion.”

They’ll never learn.

In thriller after thriller after thriller, the story opens as the main characters begin a new chapter in their lives by moving into an expansive, Insta-worthy, remote home in the woods or along the beach or nestled into an area that’s so isolated we never even see the hint of a neighbor. Things will be different and better here!

Netflix presents a film directed by Adam Salky and written by Chris Sparling. No MPAA rating. Running time: 93 minutes. Available Wednesday on Netflix.

Oh great. Let’s cue the driving rainstorms and the power outages and the mysterious sounds in the middle of the night — and the next thing you know it, this so-called paradise has turned into … A HOUSE OF HORROR!

Mining similar territory seen in recent releases such as “The Rental” and “Four Kids and It” and “You Should Have Left” and “Becky” and “Fatale,” the Netflix original movie “Intrusion” is a derivative, manipulative, convoluted and dopey story that dishes up one scary movie cliché after another before careening out of control with a late plot development so insanely implausible, so far out of left field, it’s as if someone accidentally deleted 20 pages of the script during production and nobody noticed.

The only bright spot in an otherwise dismal picture is Freida Pinto’s game and sincere performance as Meera, a cancer survivor and therapist who has moved across the country with her attentive and caring architect husband Henry (Logan Marshall-Green), leaving Boston behind for the slower, more relaxed and comforting atmosphere of a quiet town with little noise or crime. Henry actually designed and built the home himself, and it’s a massive, stone-and-glass, cold and imposing structure. Come on, Henry, read the room, so to speak. Throw in some comfy pillows and some cozy nooks and crannies man!

We know Henry might be a little tightly wound because he buttons his shirts all the way to the top, has oddly slicked back hair and wears glasses from the Guy Pearce School of Optometry. Still, he’s always telling Meera she’s beautiful and he loves her, and he’ll do anything for her, even though it’s a shame they can’t have children and it’ll just be the two of them in that giant house forever.

That’s when the stuff starts to hit the fan. There’s not one, but two break-ins, with masked thugs ransacking the house in search of … something. On the second break-in, Meera is shocked to learn Henry has a gun, and he’s not hesitant to use it. Could it be there’s more to Henry than tender games of Scrabble and gentle kisses on the neck and reassurances he’ll always be there for Meera?

As Meera becomes the obligatory Citizen Private Detective investigating things that just don’t add up, “Intrusion” pummels us with cheap scares such as the loud music sting when a bad guy pops into the frame; the ferocious barking dog that appears out of nowhere, and the fumbling for the car keys as the bad guys are closing in. Things go from bad to awful in the final act, which will practically dare you to start musing, “I wonder what Netflix has for me in the ‘Because You Watched…’ section?”

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Even that doesn't necessarily mean a bad trashy thriller isn't still fun to watch, and Intrusion seems to fall into that category. The film follows Pinto's Meera and her husband Henry (Green) who move to a small town into their dream home. But a home invasion and its shocking aftermath leave Meera questioning the motives of everyone around her.

Whether you love to hate a bad-trash thriller or just love to love it, Intrusion is likely on your list. As with any thriller, twists and turns abound so look away now if you want to avoid Intrusion spoilers .

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The film begins by establishing the background for Meera and Henry. The couple used to live in Boston, where Meera had been diagnosed with cancer, through which Henry was the picture of a doting and supportive husband.

After, they moved to a small town into the dream home that Henry, an architect, designed. Not long after, two men break into their home in the middle of the night.

Henry shoots the intruders with a hidden gun killing one and wounding the other, and despite the seeming shocking events, he returns to relative normality soon after. Meera is shaken up, both by what happened and by her husband's seemingly being unaffected.

freida pinto as meera and logan marshallgreen as henry in intrusion

One night he goes to get supplies for a housewarming party they are throwing but leaves his wallet behind, so Meera drives after him to give it to him. But he doesn't go to the store as planned. Before she can follow him to his real destination, she gets into an accident.

Since her car is damaged, she takes Henry's to work and uses the opportunity to snoop through his GPS, now suspicious of his behaviour and lies. One address is in the same trailer park where the detective (Robert John Burke) confirmed the two home invaders, Dylan Cobb – whose daughter Christine happens to be missing – and his associate lived.

Before she goes there, the detective reveals that the one home invader who survived Henry's assault died on Sunday night, the precise time Henry was MIA. Meera heads to the trailer park and in Dylan's house finds a letter from Henry's firm, revealing that the two were connected and that Henry lied.

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In Dylan's mailbox she also finds a parcel addressed to the police, inside which is a video camera. She takes it, but before she can leave she's confronted by a strange man who says he's seen the car there before (hinting to us that Henry had been there previously).

The stranger, paranoid, smashes the video camera before giving it back to her and threatens her never to return. At home, she tries to watch the video but it's damaged so instead she snoops in Henry's office and finds photos of Dylan and his missing daughter Christine.

She confronts Henry, and he reveals that he didn't have enough money to pay union workers to build the house so he hired Dylan Cobb off the book, only for Dylan to try and blackmail him later and when Henry stopped paying, Dylan broke into their home.

freida pinto as meera and logan marshallgreen as henry in intrusion

This seems to satisfy Meera (okay...) and the two decide to plan their housewarming party again. On the day of the party, Meera's new video camera arrives – she ordered it earlier to try and watch the video she took from Dylan's mailbox.

However, since she believes Henry, she tries to give it to her secretary, who refuses the gift, so she takes it home and prepares for the party. During that, though, a news announcement comes on TV revealing the man who had accosted her at the trailer park was arrested for animal cruelty, and that he had been a 'person of interest' in Christine Cobb's disappearance.

Curiosity reignited, she gets the video camera and watches Dylan's video, which claims that Henry made advances on Christine while Dylan was building their home, and he knew Henry had something to do with her disappearance. Meera goes to Henry's office and opens his safe, using the code he revealed in his moment of 'honesty', only to discover a secret basement where Christine is chained to a pipe. SURPRISE.

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Meera tries to free Christine but Henry intercepts her, revealing himself to be complete bananas. He ties Meera up too and then returns to the party to disperse the guests.

Together, Christine and Meera manage to break free and try to escape, but Henry stops them, knocking Meera out and taking Christine back to the basement by her hair. Meera wakes up and grabs a figurine of Big Ben that Henry had given her and hits Henry over the head, and with his dying breath, he asks Meera who will take care of her.

She replies "I will," and takes Christine out of the house. Fast forward and the house has been sold. Meera drives off into the sunset with her belongings to start a new life.

Intrusion is now available on Netflix.

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In Netflix's Intrusion, Henry and Meera's marriage hits a shocking obstacle in the finale, which leads to a bloody conclusion.

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Intrusion, now streaming on Netflix.

In Netflix 's Intrusion , the marriage of Henry (Logan Marshall-Greene) and Meera (Freida Pinto) unravels as a  dark secret emerges  about her Henry's activities. Meera quickly discovers he's connected to the disappearance of a young student, Christine, which leads to a brutal fight after she finds the girl in the safe room. And the result is a bloody finale that frees one of the spouses while dooming the other.

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Henry's Power Trip

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Henry finds Meera trying to free Christine and batters her, tying his wife up before going to the living room and sending their guests away. However, Meera's managed to slither free from her ropes, allowing her to liberate Christine. They then try to flee, slamming the safe room door on Henry's hand after he abused them, which culminates in a kitchen fight.

At that point, Henry rag dolls the women, pummelling Meera and leaving her unconscious. He tells her he's sorry because as sick as he is, he still loves her, heightening how demented and lost he truly is. But, despite his feelings, he still drags Christine back to the room, finally deciding it's time to end her after weeks of captivity and torture .

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Meera Strikes Back

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Meera eventually comes to in the kitchen ground after the thrilling scrap and finds a Big Ben souvenir. It's a memento of their love, but Meera accepts that everything was a lie and grabs the relic before heading to the safe room. And just as Henry's about to bash Christine's head in with his metal bat, Meera cracks him in the back of the head, and he stumbles into the same chair he kept his prisoner. Henry starts to bleed out and asks Meera who'll take care of her. This is his way of trying to gaslight her, reminding her that during her cancer treatment, she needed him to do everything. But she responds by saying she'll take care of herself as he dies.

Meera Leaves The Past Behind

Freida Pinto and Logan Marshal-Green in Intrusion

Meera brings the cops in, and they finally sew up Christine's case, which is tied to the home invaders in the first act. They were Christine's family who came after Henry, suspecting he took her after they helped him build the secluded residence. Now, closure's been gained on that front and days later, Meera's surveying the home.

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Meera knows it's a monument built to her, but it's actually a shrine for Henry's ego and a way to hide his sadistic proclivities. She puts it up for sale and jumps into a moving truck, ready to leave this chapter behind. The film then ends with the truck going through the desert as Meera leaves Henry's toxicity behind, being free at last.

To see how Meera and Christine escape Henry's lair of torture, Intrusion is now streaming on Netflix.

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Intrusion movie review: Insipid Netflix thriller doesn't do justice to Freida Pinto, Logan Marshall-Green's performances

Intrusion movie review: starring freida pinto and logan marshall-green, netflix's new thriller needed a sharper script to sustain it's intriguing premise..

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Intrusion movie review: Freida Pinto in a still from the new Netflix film. 

Twists and turns arrive with torrential intensity in Intrusion, a nifty new thriller on Netflix that struggles to sustain the excellent forward momentum established in its first act. At an hour-and-a-half long, it doesn’t outstay its welcome, but it certainly wanders down avenues it could’ve easily avoided.

Frieda Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green play a yuppie couple named Meera and Henry. We’re told early on that they’ve only recently moved into a sprawling mansion in the middle of Texas, in an apparent attempt to get away from the ‘rat race’ of Boston. But we’re never really told how they’ve been able to afford such spectacular accommodation. How mysterious.

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The plot kicks into motion when one night, their house is broken into while they’re out on a date. Red flags become noticeable. For starters, despite spending millions of dollars on the house, Henry neglected to install an alarm system. Curiouser still, Meera didn’t bother to ask him why.

More than a home invasion thriller, Intrusion is actually a relationship drama disguised behind a balaclava. The break-in happens early on, but the ripple effect that it has on the couple's 12-year marriage is felt for the rest of the movie. 

Why had Meera never asked Henry where their money came from? Why did she simply assume that he was doing well for himself? Intrusion puts forth some very pertinent questions about long-term relationships and the role some women automatically assume in them, but gets dramatically side-tracked midway through when a missing person subplot is inserted into the drama, entirely for plot reasons.

How bold would it have been had director Adam Salky taken, say, a Malcolm & Marie approach to the story; cornering Meera and Henry as they're forced to confront long-hidden secrets about each other. Writer Chris Sparling knows a thing or two about claustrophobic thrillers; he wrote the big daddy of them all, Buried, which is a fantastic reminder (to those looking for one) of Ryan Reynolds ’ formerly courageous career.

Intrusion isn’t restricted to a box, but like Buried, it’s largely about one character confined within their immediate surroundings. The desert town in which Meera finds herself is incomparably larger than the coffin in which Reynolds’ character was imprisoned in Buried, but it’s just as oppressive — like her marriage.

Freida Pinto and Logan Marshall-Green in a still from Intrusion.

Meera doesn’t realise this, but she’s trapped in a toxic relationship built entirely on guilt and manipulation. Henry regularly reminds her of how he helped her get back on her feet after she was diagnosed with cancer some years ago. He used to walk her to the bathroom, he tells her; he stood by her side when the depression came. And she nods away, forever indebted to his generosity.

Underneath the B-movie trappings that the film so whole-heartedly embraces, are themes of emancipation and survival spirit that I wish it devoted more time to, without all the unnecessary jump scares and Salky’s occasional detours into schlocky territory. Both actors are certainly skilled enough as dramatic performers — even though this isn’t the first time that Marshall-Green has appeared in a kooky thriller restricted to one house.

He’s completely unrecognisable here, which goes a long way in subverting audience expectations. I can’t remember the last time he played a clean-cut guy. But he still has that American Psycho aura about him, though. You can never be too sure about Logan Marshall-Green; he’s the kind of actor that makes it almost impossible for you to not look over your shoulder. That’s an engaging position to be in as a viewer, especially in a genre picture.

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But the writing needs to match the actors’ skills; it needs to be clever and on its toes; always a step ahead of the audience. That rarely happens in Intrusion. Chances are you’ll guess what’s around the corner even before the first floorboard creaks. The movie is following you, and it’s only a matter of time before you get impatient at having to wait for it to catch up.

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The tagline of Tyler Perry’s new movie is “everyone’s guilty of something,” but the responsibility for this willfully steamy, decidedly silly thriller is all his.

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Is creating a guilty pleasure something a director can — or even should — aim for? That’s one of the questions wafting over the writer-director Tyler Perry’s willfully steamy thriller “Mea Culpa.”

Cast for sizzle, the movie stars the singer-actor Kelly Rowland as Mea Harper, a Chicago defense attorney, and Trevante Rhodes (“Moonlight”) as a successful painter accused of killing his girlfriend. Her body has yet to been found, but there were skull fragments in one of his paintings.

The assistant district attorney Ray Hawthorne (Nick Sagar) hopes to leverage the case for a mayoral run. He’s also Mea’s brother-in-law. In the firm clutches of the matriarch Azalia (Kerry O’Malley), the Hawthornes are an ambitious clan who appear to have borrowed much of their dialogue from the daytime soaps of yore. Among Mea’s reasons for taking this case is the Hawthorne family’s condescension and the excessive deference her husband, Kal, (Sean Sagar) shows his mother. (In case the family isn’t close enough, the actors Sean and Nick Sagar are brothers.)

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While the movie teases with its “is he or isn’t he a murderer?” quandary, the soundtrack boasts killer tunes, including Isaac Hayes’s cover of “Walk on By,” playing like a caution the first time Mea visits Zyair’s loft. The warning goes unheeded, and the two embark on a possibly dangerous and decidedly silly liaison, one that taps into spousal angst and features plenty of soft-core intrigue.

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Many romantic comedies utilize deception as a key plot point. However, for every film that incorporates an inciting fib with smarts and heart (from “While You Were Sleeping” to “You’ve Got Mail”), there are others that lack a similar savvy finesse (like “How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days” and “The Wedding Date”). “ Players ” competes in the latter league. Acting as a dumbed-down, gender-swapped kissing cousin to “Hitch,” it centers on a gal and her pals who know all the right moves to land hookups. Director Trish Sie ’s middling and at times mawkish film not only makes us hate the game, but also its players.

To land the man of her dreams, Mack is gonna need some help to run a few more plays and score a second date after their initial casual sex. With the help of editor’s assistant Ashley (Liza Koshy), the crew lays the groundwork for Mack’s meetups with Nick: bumping into him at his favorite bookshop, running along his usual route and attending an outdoor movie. Why she doesn’t stay and chat with him longer during these baited excursions to score that coveted follow-up date is confounding. But just as things begin to fall into place, Mack’s confidence is shaken, causing her to question if this was actually the right play all along.

Everyone outside of Mack is one-dimensional. From moment one, we home in on Adam’s puppy-dog eyes and caring behavior toward her: walking her safely to the subway, letting on he knows what she eats when she’s sad, supporting her career and providing a shoulder to cry on when — as the score obtrusively does the heavy lifting — she grieves over cherished memories. It’s clear from the start that this pair are meant to be together, and yet this element is strung out to the point of exhaustion. Little and Ashley’s budding love affair is dealt short shrift, as is Sam’s scant development.

Sie’s direction doesn’t help much either. The choreographer-turned-director fails to find the right rhythms to properly pace the picture. A few of the many montages are repetitive time wasters, which if staged smarter would yield satisfying results. Needle drops deployed on the soundtrack are aggressively generic, serving to annoy rather than complement a sequence’s energy. Comedy comes at a minimum as the execution is sloppy, not snappy. The long-running gags either involve Carl (Jerry Kernion), the gang’s weird Milton-esque colleague, or are oddly preoccupied with smell, from a stranger’s odor in the opening scene through Adam’s heartfelt pronouncement to Mack that she smells like falafel when she’s blue.

Rodriguez elevates the proceedings with her ebullient charm and gumption, but occasionally overcompensates, leading to a few false notes. Wayans Jr., having been a solid draw in “Long Weekend,” “Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar” and “Happy Endings,” has no poker face when it comes to the material, but does show some promise in this genre as a marquee man. Ellis isn’t nearly as narcissistically smarmy as he needs to be to fit the part. Though not without his slights, he’s a normal, good-looking dude and the only character not playing childish games.

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Reviewed online, Los Angeles, February 12, 2023. Running time: 103 MIN.

  • Production: A Netflix release of a Marc Platt, Campfire Studios production. Producer: Ross M. Dinerstein, Marc Platt, Adam Siegel, Ryan Christians. Executive Producers: Ross Girard, Sophia Lin, Gina Rodriguez, Molly Breeskin.
  • Crew: Director: Trish Sie. Screenplay: Whit Anderson. Camera: Matthew Clark. Editor: Kathryn Himoff. Music: Jeff Cardoni.
  • With: Gina Rodriguez, Damon Wayans Jr., Tom Ellis, Augustus Prew, Joel Courtney, Liza Koshy, Jerry Kernion.

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