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The Intruder
A (INDIA)
2019
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The Intruder
Positive Reviews
35
Negative reviews
51
Average Rating
2.3
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3.0
Nothing will catch you off guard. Nothing will feel new or fresh. Yet it still manages to be reasonably fun in large part due to Quaid and a role he r ..
Keith & the Movies
4.5
Whats unique about The Intruder is that the basic set up doesnt necessarily scream farcical cinematic gold.
Den Of Geek
3.0
Ultimately, though, there is gargantuan amounts of fun to be had with The Intruder if youre a fan of agreeably silly thrillers, and, frankly, Dennis Q ..
Den Of Geek
3.0
The screenplay, by David Loughery (Obsessed, Passenger 57), hits every bingo in the genre, from The Fatally Oblivious Best Friend (Joseph Sikora) to t ..
EW
2.0
Your mileage, however, may vary.Directed by Deon Taylor (Traffik), written by David Loughery (Lakeview Terrace), and filled to the brim with situation ..
Variety
3.0
Which makes the release of The Intruder, yet another glossy PG 13 melodrama from Screen Gems about a black couple tormented by an exterior evil, feel ..
The Guardian
1.9
Vazquez spends her days working with public schools in the New York City borough, helping young people graduate high school and get into college.
0.6
There is a faintly greenish fuzz of bread mold at the edges of every frame of this stale exercise in psychological horror.
3.0
But it is also never less than stridently entertaining, in part thanks to a brittle central performance from Erica Rivas.
Screen Daily
1.0
Impenetrable would be a generous way of describing French auteur ClaireDenis latest feature; adjectives like self indulgent and dull might occurto the ..
Screen Daily
1.5
If youre a fan of the genre, you would have seen better and far worse than The Intruder.
ETimes (TOI)
3.5
This is not actually the first time Quaid has played a horror villain, of course over the course of a prolific career that stretches across five decad ..
Vulture
2.0
Hes the number one earner at a San Francisco marketing firm; she writes the occasional magazine article and daydreams about a home far from the city w ..
The Hollywood Reporter
5.0
Soon they find the perfect home to start a family; rustic, remote, and surrounded by woods, this luxurious property is everything theyve ever wanted.
3.0
Although the information that she used to convey through her ubiquitous TV and radio appearances can now be accessed with just a couple of keyboard cl ..
E Film Critic
3.1
Directed by Deon Taylor with a cheeky sense of fun and deep knowledge of the genre, The Intruder is the kind of schlocky yet satisfying genre filmmaki ..
3.0
The Intruder offers up a bit of everything, even if some of it seems mostly unintentional.
The Young Folks
2.5
Because if youre looking for the smart, intriguing thriller the movie is marketed as, its flimsy, predictable and uninspired.
Cinema Blend
2.5
The Russell family, comprised of husband Scott and his wife, (another) Annie, first meet Charlie when he abruptly shoots a deer during their viewing o ..
The Globe And Mail
2.5
The more relentlessly guessable the movie becomes, the harder it is to excuse the actions of the credulous characters.
Philly
3.0
Quaid is so believably unplugged in his portrayal of the man obsessed with his home that he makes you forgive the many cliches.
3.0
particularly silly home invasion thriller...that wants to scare you but is more likely to make you burst out laughing
One Guys Opinion
2.5
Hes had the demonic grin all along.He just had to apply it to the right demon.
Rogers Movie Nation
1.9
The people populating this movie are so dumb that they belong in a horror film.
ReelViews
2.5
A hackneyed effort from two filmmakers who havent learned from their past mistakes.
Blu Ray
1.9
Dennis Quaid plays the antagonist in this tale of new homeowners who keep getting random, unwelcome visits from Quaids Charlie Peck, the houses previo ..
Mark Reviews Movies
3.0
Jackson was truly terrifying objecting to his white neighbors marriage to a black woman, Quaids loony lust for playing house with the black woman who ..
3.1
Filmmaker Deon Taylor delivers a thriller that offers little in the way of surprises or even momentum but ultimately does manage to get the job done.
Reel Film Reviews
3.0
A thriller filled with unnecessary relationship drama that goes nowhere and a message about gun violence that s instantly tossed aside Dennis Quaid is ..
You Tube
2.0
Worse still, any attempts at old school suspense are crassly undermined by gratuitously gruesome scenes of violence and torture that are more suited t ..
Radio Times
1.5
Alas, that or anything else imaginative or surprising never materializes.
Screen It
1.5
Charlie gets a huge windfall after they buy his home, which should get him out of debt.
The Wrap
0.5
If all this sounds familiar, thats probably because its been done before, and done far better.
Hindustan Times
2.0
He is a public relations god The No. 1 earner at the company! someone crows and she writes about empowerment for womens magazines.
Az Central
1.0
Depicting an old white man refusing to cede his social position of lord of the manor, David Lougherys script promises sparks but doesnt care to dig de ..
Flim List
2.5
Since the upwardly mobile millennials are having a hard time with their marriage, theyre hoping this move to suburbia will help mend the rift.
Susang Ranger
2.5
Husband Scott (Michael Ealy) is a marketing whiz and his gorgeous wife Annie (Meagan Good) is a magazine writer.
Observer
1.0
Essentially, the film stars Michael Ealy and Meagan Good playing a wealthy couple named Annie and Scott moving down to the countryside envisioning it ..
Flickering Myth
0.1
However, for Annie and Scott, things go wrong in a way that is at least tantalising to imagine.
The New Indian Express
4.5
The premise is very simple: Scott (Michael Ealy) and Annie (Meagan Good) are a young married couple looking to buy a home outside the city, and they f ..
Birth Movies Death
2.5
Instead, he randomly shows up to mow the lawn and put new topsoil into the flowerbeds.
Movie Freak
3.0
But the game cast and opportunities for interactivity this is a movie that invites you to shout at the screen make it a fun if predictable ride.
Detroit News
3.0
There are suspicious incidents in the house and Scott feels like theyre being watched at every moment, but Annie can only see Charlie as harmless.
The Play List
2.0
Despite an interestingly creepy premise the character choices are so idiotic and over the top that they become unlikeable The script is cheesy and uni ..
You Tube
2.5
Its thriller by numbers stuff and redeemed largely by a wide eyed performance from Quaid who oozes quiet understated malice.
Star Burst Magazine
3.0
The Intruder succeeds in making this scenario less blatantly paranoid and misanthropic than it often appears... It also helps that Quaid, showing rema ..
Lw Lies
1.5
Its often unintentionally hilarious, even more frequently cringe inducing, and makes good actors look silly.
Film Racket
2.0
But The Intruder is so dumb that you literally want to scream in frustration.Marketing wizard Scott (Michael Ealy) and his writer wife Annie (Meagan G ..
FilmFare
0.0
The Intruder stars two gorgeous and likable actors: Michael Ealy, who plays Scott Howard, a creative director with a San Francisco advertising agency, ..
Chicago Sun Times
1.5
Horror director Deon Taylor (Meet the Blacks, Traffik) delivers an uninspired clunker.
Movie Web
2.5
The initially amiable seller is Charlie (Quaid), who has lived his entire life in that one house, and though reluctant to let go of it is selling to m ..
Dead Line
2.0
The contrived and clichd script never gets going and comes with an unsatisfying predictable outcome, but what really makes it such a bad film is how a ..
Dennis Schwartz Reviews
2.0
Charlie sweetens the deal and next thing we know, the two of them are moving into their new home.
Solzy At The Movies
3.0
The film is so full of jump scare fake outs and shout at the screen moments, it neglects to build sustained suspensea far worse sin than its lack of l ..
Film Avclub
2.5
He has guns, lots of them, and he knows things about poisonous flowers that grow on the property.
Seattle Times
2.0
This seems like a career ending move for both of them (him as the #1 earner at an ad agency, and her as a writer at a womens magazine focusing on inju ..
Fresh Fiction
3.5
Directed by Deon Taylor, The Intruder is a good time in the theater.
Black Girl Nerds
1.0
That is, until the couple take possession.In the movies, a new house can either bring time travel and true love (if its The Lakehouse) or a haunting.
National Post
2.0
Scott, not so much.Hes dubious about Annies dream house, dreading the commute, and Charlie (Dennis Quaid, the tightly wound, grinning guy selling them ..
Original Cin
1.0
Its the characters that really make this movie what it is, or isnt.
The National
2.0
It becomes fun when Charlie begins a pissing contest with Scott, but its undercut by Annies stupidity.
Rendy Reviews
5.0
In true Hitchcockian style, the monsters here are more frightening than ever thanks to an award worthy, insanely brilliant performance by Dennis Quaid ..
3.1
Scott thinks Charlie is crazy, but Annie doesnt see that: She sees a well meaning widower who has trouble letting go of the past.
Qc Times
1.3
And a similar feeling settled on me as I watched The Intruder, a terrible movie that ranks way down there on the home invasion scale (below Cold Creek ..
Film Frenzy
1.9
The previous owner is Charlie Peck (Dennis Quaid), who claims the house has good bones and he does, too.
Sf Examiner
3.8
We care plenty about the couple in peril, and in a glossy thriller like The Intruder thats matters most.
Hollywood Into To
3.0
The movie eventually gets to where we know its going, but by the time it arrives there, it has blasted through every shred of suspension of disbelief, ..
Assignment X
4.5
Charlie couldnt seem nicer until its still discovered that he is strangely still emotionally and physically attached to the Russells new homeliterally ..
Wp Me
3.0
Scott Russell (Michael Ealy, TVs Being Mary Jane) is a successful marketing executive living in San Francisco with his wife Annie (Meagan Good, Shazam ..
1.5
The in between stuff isnt nearly as sharp, mostly tepid suggestions at some kind of marinating psychosis threatening to explode at some very distant p ..
Battleship Pretension
1.5
What begins as a creepy stalker popcorn flick spirals into a demented romp worthy of a grindhouse double bill
Entertainment Voice
3.0
Ealy and Good play the husband and wife duo that, somehow or another, have $3.1 million to drop on a nice two story home in the middle of Napa Valley.
The Only Critic
2.0
In The Intruder, Scott (Michael Ealy, The Perfect Guy, next years Jacobs Ladder remake) and Annie (Meagan Good, Saw V, The Unborn) Howard buy their dr ..
Bloody Disgusting
1.9
These problems can be avoided altogether: When you tour the home for the first time and you meet the owner as he is slaughtering a deer on the propert ..
Heral
3.0
All in all, Charlie is a villain in the full definition of the term, and Quaid doesnt shy away from that fact.
Mac Guff
2.0
The Intruder squanders any promise with a hopeless descent into horror cliches.
Denerstein Unleashed Blog ..
2.0
But he cant seem to let go of the house, which hes lived in his entire life.
Crooked Marquee
0.5
And then theres Charlie, the spiritual older uncle of Splits The Beast.
The Spool
2.0
Dennis Quaid s performance is the only bright spot in this dismissible thriller.
2.8
The Intruder is a one stop shopping centre for trite thriller cliches
The Gate
1.9
What makes The Intruder a sad movie is that it feels like a waste of characters and money. .
2.0
2M country home in pricey Napa Valley, a stones throw from San Francisco.
Dwight Brown Ink
1.0
Hes introduced maniacally shooting a deer, and he keeps showing up to help out.
Monsters And Critics
3.0
While screenwriter David Lougherys script for The Intruder might not exactly be the most imaginative or unique, as someone who grew up loving every ri ..
Daily Dead
2.0
Its the Dennis Quaid of movies.Taylor has yet to direct a film thats received even a critical soft pass, his talent page stained with myriad rotten sp ..
Silver Screen Riot
1.5
Just because its 2019 doesnt mean every filmmaker has access to Marvel money.
3.0
What he finds there isnt so great, and he soon realizes that his family is in grave danger.
Vanyaland
2.5
Its hard to pan a movie this entertaining, but its also hard to recommend The Intruder with a straight face.
Book & Film Globe
2.5
Ready to open a new door in their lives, their picture perfect life in the country is turned into a living nightmare when Charlie begins to reveal tha ..
But Why Tho? A Geek Commun ..
2.5
The Intruder ignores how hospital admissions work, massive plot holes (the end of the films reveal is so ridiculous), and that a simple installation o ..
Ready Steady Cut
1.5
Ealey is normally the best actor working on the screen in anything he does. That doesnt change with The Intruder, but its tragic to see his skills was ..
Ohio
1.5
I loved this and I will watch it again I m not telling anyone else to see it it s straight up but I was so entertained that I in good consciousness ca ..
Double Toasted
2.0
Its good to see Dennis Quaid on the big screen again and not huckstering insurance on TV. Too bad his terrific villainy is wasted in this predictable ..
Kxl
2.0
The property is called Foxglove, like the beautiful but deadly flower, and owned for generations by the Peck family.
Texas Art & Film
2.0
Its hard to narrow down if its the acting that was terrible or if the dialogue was too bad to act. Likely, it was both.
Jamaica Gleaner
3.0
Director Taylor, whose Traffik considers the plight of a romantic couple who are invaded by a group of bikers, is right in his metier here, though you ..
Big Apple Reviews
1.5
Ealy and Good s attempts are useless before the most ridiculous parts of the climax but they do give an emotional beat to the production that prevents ..
El Nuevo DÃa (Puerto Rico ..
1.5
Its hard to say if Quaids performance is career ending or a career highlight in a decade thats seen him in a Footloose remake and two talking dog movi ..
2.5
Affluent San Francisco advertising executive Scott Russell (Michael Ealy, Underworld: Awakening) and his lovely magazine writer wife Annie (Meagan Goo ..
3.3
Granted, that doesnt mean hes scary or particularly intimidating as Charlie; hes justa creep.
Black Horror Movies
2.0
So, there are several warning signs here that may make a non dumb movie couple move on to the next idyllic listing.
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