Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sorry, this movie sucks

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Danny Boyle is one of the industry's most innovative, versatile and inventive modern directors. He has a solid track-record of great films, but I don't think Trance is one of them. Trance is one of those movies that shouldn't be a movie. When there is so much filler and unnecessary scenes that it may as well be an episode from a TV show or TV movie. My hopes for a solid piece or entertainment were high during the first act, but from then on, the movie takes a sharp turn down a road of mediocrity that really doesn't end anywhere.The first act of the film were charming and witty. We see a cast of familiar and talented faces as James McAvoy's character lays it down for us. It at first reminded me of a Guy Ritchie film, with it's energetic camera movements, witty narration and character introductions familiar to Snatch, but sadly this is not nearly as enjoyable after the first act.The problem with Trance is that the story is so muddled with unnecessary scenes and filler that it almost feels unfinished and very rushed. Like they needed more scenes to fill a feature-length run time but were running out of ideas. The story itself is very linear but is never simple or focused. The movie never follows it's narrative clearly and it leads to some confusion during viewing, which was eventually frustrating because it seemed Trance never really cared about telling a cohesive story, let alone even finish it.One of my biggest issues is the exploitation of themes within the film. Rosario Dawson goes fully nude for the film and the scene in which this occurs was meant to be sexy and enjoyable for the audience. But it just felt super exploitative and unnecessary to the story. It felt like it was shoved in to actually get people to talk about the film but it was just awfully executed and felt awkward to watch. The same goes for the violence. Trance is surprisingly graphic at times but I was having a hard time trying to figure out why. The brutal violence strayed so far away from the original tone of the movie that it as well felt unnecessary and overdone. Trance really doesn't understand it's audience and it led to a generally displeasing viewing experience.The hypnosis sequences are really the only interesting part of the film but by the end they get tiring and overdone. There were way too many of these scenes and it felt as if Boyle was including all these trippy sequences to make up for the awful "love story" occurring in the secondary story arch as the relationships and feelings these characters share are never clear.In total, Trance is a messy, bloated, unfinished skeleton of a film. With some more work and editing done to it, Trance could've been a lot better but as it stands now it is only a fraction of Boyle's real talent behind the camera. Trance is the kind of movie that you want to love because of the cool concept and narrative style, but can never get into because the movie doesn't really seem to care. The choppy and exploitative story is predictable and certainly not viewer-friendly. If you're looking for some mindless and forgettable entertainment then Trance will do you well. Just don't expect to come out happy and satisfied.

This started out really well, the opening heist, the music, an intriguing story. Unfortunately as the movie progressed the plot got more and more convoluted so that after that first half an hour I spent the remainder of the movie trying to figure out what was going on and getting more and more confused. What's real, what's a dream, what's a hypnotic suggestion or implanted memory. No idea.I did enjoy James McAvoy who spends most of the movie in a confused state of anxiety and desire. He plays an art auctioneer who becomes mixed up with a group of criminals who in turn partner with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting. Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel also put in decent performances.Its essentially a British crime caper, or at least starts out that way. A heist movie with so many psychological twists that by the time all the pieces are coming back together along with a crazy action sequence you just want it to be over. Trippy. 11/30/15

This film starts with an interesting premise but slowly surprises with many other layers. The movie starts with an enrapturing sequence, that is manipulated by the director/ the storyteller and thus keeps us invested in the plot. The story similar to inception (in a good way) delves into the human psyche, memory and the mind. This subject matter makes the audience feel intelligent and invested as well as the masterful performances of James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Rene Cassel keep your eyes attached to the screen. The ending gives the audience one of the greatest and most heartbreaking revelations in movies that changes how one views the protagonists and the plot.

Danny Boyle is one of my favorite and one of the great modern filmmakers of the last twenty years. His unique style and ability to make a film in a different genre each time he gets in the director's seat has not only proved successful and earned him critical praise and awards, but it shows that he has limitless talent to entertain a wide variety of audiences across the globe. With his latest film, 'Trance', Boyle shows he still has what it takes to make a modern noir movie with so many twists and turns, that eventually you will give up trying to figure what's going on in the story, and fall into Boyle's "trance" of betrayal, thievery, and sex in this art heist thriller.The main focus here is on an auction house employee Simon (Jame McAvoy), who is cahoots with three criminals to steal a painting from the 1700s by Goya, which in the film was auctioned off for over $41 million. In an elaborate scheme to pull off this heist, Simon's partner in crime Francis (Vincent Cassel) hit him with a shotgun in the head, leaving Simon in the hospital for a few days with a case of amnesia. What we find out is, Simon hid the painting before making the handoff and now cannot remember where he stashed it.After a bit of brutal torture on Simon, Francis and his two thugs believe he has no idea where he hid the painting and thus tell him to seek hypnosis therapy to see if he can trigger his memory loss. He seems to choose random name out of the phone book of American therapist Dr. Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson), who is smarter than she thinks and figures out quickly that Simon is in trouble and that his cohorts are listening in to their sessions secretly. Dr. Lamb convinces the group to join for hypnosis sessions and after she realizes what's at stake, she insists on an equal cut of the prize.From here, things spiral out of control into a frenzy of betrayal, lies, sex, and regaining painful memories that seem to advance the story on who really is in charge of this whole set up. For the most part, it seems that Dr. Lamb is in charge as she is the one conducting the therapy sessions with everyone, and things get a bit comical when Francis' thugs are hypnotized in a therapy session, which is to showcase their biggest fears. Dawson's performance of Dr. Lamb might be her greatest role to date as she exudes so much confidence and commands a very powerful performance, that we fall under her spell and are never cured.McAvoy turns in some brilliant work as does Cassel in their very flawed but emotional characters. Particularly Cassel, as at first he seems to be just a basic criminal out for money, but there is more to him than just greed, and we really sympathize with him. And that is what Boyle does so well here. He captures the very human side of an epic crime, one of which we are thrown into a maze of deceit and blood, to which we may never come out of. The camera tricks and use of stylized colors here make every character pop and show their very different sides and motivations from Dawson's full frontal nude scene to McAvoy's descent into madness.There has never been a heist movie told quite like this before, and even though we might not know what the hell is going on until the final moments of the film, it's a gut wrenching visceral experience. One that you won't soon forget.