Intruders

An efficiently engineered suspenser, with solid performances and a tight pace.

The result is a promising film that leaves a bad taste in your mouth, like a meal well-presented on the plate that just doesn't fill you up.

The actors alone can't sustain "Intruders" for its full 90 minutes, but for the most part they follow Starr's lead, carrying a film that's both menacing and magnetic.

"Intruders," a distasteful thriller with a bludgeoning sensibility and little common sense, turns a cozy family home into a clockwork house of horrors.

Intruders ultimately comes across like basic-cable schlock (or is it Netflix schlock now?), slightly redeemed by the germ of a great idea, even if said idea never truly germinates.

Like the house, the movie is something of a shifting puzzle box; if only the backstory that turns its gears weren't so rotten.

A debut film that has enough narrative aplomb, which is perceived through a welcome fluidity and not a little dryness to solve situations that in so many other thrillers tend to stretch artificially and / or confusingly. [Full review in Spanish]

A loose budget film that manages to reach the end with dignity with its shortcomings . [Full review in Spanish]

This film is not good nor entertaining, it's rather light, and lacks suspense and tension. [Full review in Spanish]

A film that has little to offer with characters that lack on substance, and is below Eden Lake, its immediate reference. [Full review in Spanish]

[director] Schindler plays these cat-and-mouse tropes expertly, as hunter and hunted repeatedly swap roles - but Schindler proves equally adept at playing our initial sympathies with Anna off against our escalating moral unease.

[W]hat Intruders lacks most is a sense of a personal touch, and as a result, the film's original reversal of home invasion genre is lost in the blandness of its' presentation.