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- 2019
- PG-13
- Screen Gems
- 1 h 42 m
- 2019
- PG-13
- Screen Gems
- 1 h 42 m
Summary When a young married couple (Michael Ealy and Meagan Good) buys their dream house in the Napa Valley, they think they have found the perfect home to take their next steps as a family. But when the strangely attached seller (Dennis Quaid) continues to infiltrate their lives, they begin to suspect that he has hidden motivations beyond a qu...
Directed By: Deon Taylor
Written By: David Loughery
- 2019
- PG-13
- Screen Gems
- 1 h 42 m
- 2019
- PG-13
- Screen Gems
- 1 h 42 m
The Intruder
39
4.7
Where to Watch
Summary When a young married couple (Michael Ealy and Meagan Good) buys their dream house in the Napa Valley, they think they have found the perfect home to take their next steps as a family. But when the strangely attached seller (Dennis Quaid) continues to infiltrate their lives, they begin to suspect that he has hidden motivations beyond a qu...
Directed By: Deon Taylor
Written By: David Loughery
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
39
8% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
32% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
39
8% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
32% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
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 filmmaking that makes you jump and laugh at the same time.
The film is so full of jump scare fake-outs and shout-at-the-screen moments, it neglects to build sustained suspense — a far worse sin than its lack of logic, which can actually be kind of fun.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 42 User Ratings
4.7
21% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
50% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
29% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 42 User Ratings
4.7
21% Positive
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
50% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
29% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
More silly than scary. This doesn’t seem to be entirely intentional, and it isn’t altogether unwelcome.
The whole thing would be more fun, you start to feel, if Intruder just committed fully to the schlocky midnight-movie glory of it all; let Quaid’s lawn-mowing wingnut swing that ax not just for soft vulnerable body parts, but the stars.
A cookie-cutter thriller that takes its time getting to the (sorta) good stuff, it's for die-hards only.
The Intruder is next-level dopey. Every single character in this film, including the villain, is irritatingly, maddeningly dumb. Nearly every scene is practically an invitation for the audience to talk back to the screen and ask these people if they’ve lost their minds.
My friends and i thought this was a decent movie! Dennis Quaid plays against type as a totally creepy man who has many secrets and attaches himself to a sweet couple who buy his house. Annie falls in love with this huge home nestled in the woods and sees Charlie (Quaid) as a lonely man who has lost his wife and home. She gives him the benefit of the doubt each time he shows up inappropriately. Her husband Scott isn’t so sure about him. Charlie plays an increasingly big part in their lives as he inserts himself into Annie’s heart. But, is he friend or foe? Very good story.
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Movie started out good but eventually became too predictable. Like ok make the movie with a plot which is predictable, but then at least make it really exciting and even though you can see how it will end it has to be exciting all around. This was just predictable and while it is ok and watchable and not like need to skip through it, it still isn't much to remember about
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It was better than I thought it was going to be but it wasn't that great. The plot and movie was kind of all over the place. Dennis Quaid gave a fantastic performance. The writing wasn't horrible. It was a good thriller but it is one of my least favorite movies of 2019.
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(Mauro Lanari)
Dennis Quaid's Jack Torrance is useful for understanding a silliness of Kubrick's philosophy: anti-militarist, pacifist, however convinced that bellicism is a masculine characteristic (the sniper woman in "FMJ" would require a separate analysis). A pre-#metoo feminism that Deon Taylor could have amended with this film, and instead he relaunches the PC by attributing the toxic violence to a straight white man who attacks an innocuous (?) black couple. I would have preferred the parasitic "second chance" of the bad guy with ax, knife and rifle to be shown in its analogy with the lifestyle of the two protagonists.
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Production Company
Screen Gems,
Hidden Empire Film Group (HEFG),
Primary Wave Entertainment
Release Date May 3, 2019
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline Your House. His Home.
