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- 2016
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 32 m
- 2016
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 32 m
Summary Waters (Elijah Wood) and Stone (Nicolas Cage) are two nobody police officers working dull administrative jobs and making extra money selling stolen Civil Service Exams to other officers. When Stone hears a story about a heroin dealer quickly beating his extremely high bail, the two friends set into motion a plan to find the origin of suc...
Directed By: Alex Brewer, Benjamin Brewer
Written By: Adam Hirsch
- 2016
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 32 m
- 2016
- R
- Saban Films
- 1 h 32 m
The Trust
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5.3
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Summary Waters (Elijah Wood) and Stone (Nicolas Cage) are two nobody police officers working dull administrative jobs and making extra money selling stolen Civil Service Exams to other officers. When Stone hears a story about a heroin dealer quickly beating his extremely high bail, the two friends set into motion a plan to find the origin of suc...
Directed By: Alex Brewer, Benjamin Brewer
Written By: Adam Hirsch
Where to Watch
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Metascore
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Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
58
33% Positive
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4 Reviews
67% Mixed
8 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Wood and Cage have a terrific dynamic together.
When it comes to the disposable VOD fare that Cage and Travolta have made a side career out of indiscriminately embracing, minor pleasures are a major improvement.
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Mixed or Average
Based on 29 User Ratings
5.3
24% Positive
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55% Mixed
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 29 User Ratings
5.3
24% Positive
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7 Ratings
55% Mixed
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16 Ratings
21% Negative
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Solid heist movie with a unique twist at the end. Good performances from both leads, a return to form for Nic Cage and Elijah Wood as the sort of disillusioned stoner that you've always imagined he's like in real life. The cinematography gets interesting in the last third (heist part) of the film. Definitely worth a rental, don't know if I'd buy the Blu-Ray.
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In this cop thriller Elijah Wood and Nicolas Cage are really trying their best but, with a scenario less than original, a predictable story and the wooden acting by the rest of the cast, they can't save that movie **** Trust is just another cop drama/thriller with an entertaining last half hour and a boring first hour that people will soon forget.
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Cage and Wood make a hugely enjoyable double act (has True Detective season three been cast yet?) in this deceptively dark thriller with comic undertones, arguably sunk by a seismic tonal shift that not only wipes the smile off your face, but leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Tune into its offbeat frequency, however, and there is much to enjoy.
The Trust is many other things — darkly funny, flawed, with a eminently watchable dynamic between Cage and Wood — but from frame one it reasonably entertains, while its characters have nothing but contempt for one another.
A moderately entertaining heist movie featuring an animated and reasonably diverting Eccentric Cage Performance.
A so-so heist movie whose dirty-cop character’s personality must have been described in the screenplay as “Nicolas Cage-esque.” Fortunately, Cage was available.
Cage supplies a stream of tension-defusing laughs while the script steadily applies the screws, but this disposable exercise in comic nihilism offers only a modest payoff at best.
Cage and Wood both give solid performances but the film is all over the place. From scene to scene you're not sure what's going on or if it makes sense for the characters. C+
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About trusting a prankster for a risky job.
It was so much better than I anticipated, but the end ruined my party. It was the right time I saw it, because I haven't seen any heist films recently. It was not like any genuine heist theme, but still I kind of enjoyed it for being a slightly different, especially the first two acts. It is about the two cops, actually they're part of the police department, but from a different division. When they discover a huge illegal money belonging to a cartel gang after going through the police file, they plan to hit it and disappear forever. But as the title indicates, the trust is what lacks between them. In the third act, the pace picks up rapidly and brings a twist in the tale before the credits begin to roll.
Two wonderful main characters with a decent story, but I don't know about the cast. I kind of felt there was a vast age gap between them, like an old man teaming up with a teenager. Obviously worst chemistry, but that's the point, if you understand the title very well. Both the characters were completely opposite, like one was a very confident person, but a prankster and the other guy were a hopeless, but serious about everything. Just like a wolf and a sheep together planning to rob a farmer. When it was going good, like I said the conclusion spoilt the overall product. Other than that it is an okay film.
5/10
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There are certain actors and actresses whom I will watch in anything they release, Nicholas Cage is one of those actors. Even in the worst movies, he always gives a strong performance and I enjoy watching him work, but even the Academy Award winning actor couldn't save The Trust. Cage plays Stone, a lifelong cop still on the bottom of the pecking order. Luckily for him, he's paired with the much younger Waters (Elijah Wood), another cop with few aspirations. Together they don't make up a team of elite crime fighters, so on their off hours, they're small time criminals, and as it turns out they're not great at that either. One day while investigating a case, they notice a safe in the evidence room and decide to bust it open, what's inside leads them into a mess of police corruption. For starters, this movie doesn't make sense! Everyone talks in riddles, it's impossible to know who is on what side, and most important of all, what's the point? If these guys are corrupt cops, why do they care so much when they discover that they aren't the only ones? They're losers who don't care about anything, until they find out there are other bad cops, then all of a sudden they are Starsky and Hutch? I love the cast, but between the riddles, the constant twists, and the strange dialogue this film was just a mess, and pretty much unwatchable.
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Thriller about two dirty cops (Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood) who pull off a heist. Dark, weird, and in serious need of suspense... but does not outright ****. A good thing for a movie starring Cage these days.
Still, even at its meagre 91 minutes, it feels longer, because of the slowness and nothing really elevating the general lethargic feeling. Some of the critics like at least some of it, mentioning dark humor, smartness and oddball charm. Me, I'd compare it to mediocre student project.
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Production Company
Highland Film Group (HFG),
Hassell Free Productions,
Ingenious Media,
Saban Films,
The Electric Shadow Company,
Prettybird,
Saeculum Productions,
Movie Trailer House
Release Date May 13, 2016
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating R
Tagline Bad cops make the best criminals
Website
http://dirty-cop.jp/
