Maleeha Vincent
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Zlatica
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Fleur
Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.
DVR_Brale
Mr. nice guy turns narcissistic and violent. That's the core of the movie. But how would you handle somebody who introduced himself to everybody as nice and helping but revealed his true face only to you? Surely you would tell that person to back off but the problem is that everybody else will think that you're overreacting; including your wife.Unlawful Entry creates suspense by introducing unpredictable and sinister cop on the one side and a normal husband who somehow has to stop him and convince his wife not to communicate with him on the other. But how do you stop a cop with a good reputation or get along with your wife after being rude to someone who had helped her? Michael Carr (Kurt Russel) found himself cornered by a more powerful man whose power lies in ability to do amoral things.It wasn't psycho officer who made me uncomfortable and angry but Michaels' wife. If she was more ready to appreciate her husbands warnings maybe she would have saved them both from going through hell. But no; Michael is only projecting - officer Pete is way to nice, she thought. I think it's easier to handle a lunatic cop than a wife who doesn't trust you as this movie clearly shows. She gave officer Pete a signal (probably unwillingly) that she might be interested in him and he went nuts! "What's it going to take to convince you? Me in a body bag?", Michael asks his wife. Someone must be crazy: its either officer, Michael or his wife. I propose it was his wife.If you're interested in psychological thrillers where everything turns on the good guy, you're going to appreciate effort put in a movie which makes soft and hard spoken words really count. And a nice soundtrack, too!
gavin6942
A young professional couple are befriended and looked after by one very kindly uniformed police officer, who at first merely answers a burglary call at their home, but in the course of time his ever-increasing attentions to them come to be more and more suspect in themselves.Kurt Russell facing off against a crazy Ray Liotta is pretty great, but it seems like they never took this film to its full potential. Liotta is nuts and excels in his role, but Russell is too subdued. He seems like the wrong actor for the part, because we know how intense he can be.The film also seems to follow the cookie cutter thriller plot, with the necessary changes here and there. It would have been nice to see something we have not already seen many times before (and things that were especially common in the early 1990s).
Tom Willett (yonhope)
The basic idea of this movie is very interesting. It is a "what if" that is believable. The cast is good and the cat is doing his or her best in a kitty bit.This movie would have been much better without breast shots. The film needed Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day and maybe Jack Palance. Kurt Russell is no slouch, but he takes it too seriously. Just because someone is trying to maybe kill your wife or take her from you or maybe he is a bit off center, is that any reason to get so angry? Things that date a movie are scenes with any computer or phone or naked bosoms. Women wear blouses now. The opening title sequence is well done. The photography is quite good throughout the film. The music is OK, but a real Hitchcock orchestration would have helped. Unchained Melody would have worked in many parts of this production. High Noon Theme or Dragnet Theme in places. Not those songs but something new with that feel.Since the movie was in color I think the cat should have been black and white. Also the cat should have had a good name that could have been the name of the movie, like Hondo or Lassie or Flicka or Danger Puss. Something like that.
FlashCallahan
After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops that answered their call.He helps them install the security system, and begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol, and spends a lot of time discussing the couple's problems with the wife.The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help...Lets face it, when this film was released, anyone who was offered help from Ray Liotta was asking for trouble.It's a great entry into the sub-genre of nice strangers who turn psycho, and one of the last good ones. Fear in 1996 was a good addition, but since then we haven't had a decent one (The resident was the pits).It's a slice of early nineties cheese, especially because it's round about that time when the nineties was still trying to be the eighties, so the yuppie context coming from Russell is rife throughout.But him and Liotta are on fire here, and there is a little homophobic subtext between the two when they are bonding.The Ray gets a little out of hand and starts acting a bit freaky and Kurt blows a fuse. He gets framed for something he didn't do and due to him having all his cards cancelled cannot get bail to be with his wife.This is where the film goes a bit silly. Liotta kills his partner for the reason being that he's probably done this before (we never get to find out) and he's going to tell his boss.Then he cooks dinner for Stowe (who is excellent in this), knowing that she is freaked out beyond her mind. the man may be crazy, but i'm sure he' not stupid.The film then does the classic 'is he dead?' thing and before the payoff happens, Liotta has time to say something cool.The build up is fantastic, it's expertly made and looks like a lot of money has been thrown at it. The actors are all great and it's one of Hollywoods best Adult Psycho Thrillers, along with Pacific Heights, Single white Female, and anything Michael Douglas starred in circa 1987-1994.
