The Intruder 2025
Sinopsis
A young man’s paranoia spirals when he becomes convinced that someone is sneaking into his home every night.
Cast
- Dennis Quaid,
- Michael Ealy,
- Meagan Good,
- Joseph Sikora
- , Alvina August
- , Lili Sepe,
- Lee Shorten,
- Carolyn Anderson
Review
This movie is an absolute and utter delight, and not once is it for the reasons it intends.
The Intruder, to clear up any confusion, is awful; badly written, awkwardly directed, horrifically edited, it is a failure in both storytelling and filmmaking. However, I laughed more consistently through this movie than most of the comedies I’ve seen so far this year; this is the kind of film where you can sit back and have a good old chuckle at its incompetence, the plot which increasingly makes no sense as it goes along, and especially some of the over-the-top performances that make this movie an unintentionally hilarious experience.
The film is about Los Angeles couple Scott and Annie (Michael Ealy and Meagan Good), who end up buying a house in Napa Valley. However, the person they buy it from is Charlie (Dennis Quaid), who has a very strong connection to the house and continues to show up unannounced even after they move in, which begins to leave the couple on edge, especially when his more sinister intentions start to show.
That’s really all you need to know about the plot going in, because as simple as it may seem – from the offset, it looks like just another one of these trashy stalker thrillers you’d see from the mid to late 90s – nothing will prepare you for the onslaught of hilarious nonsense this movie constantly finds itself in. For instance, the very first time we meet Charlie, there is something incredibly off about him, and yet this couple – particularly Annie, who warms to him far easier than Scott does – still finds him incredibly reasonable; even later on, when it’s clear that he’s doing so much to make these people’s lives a living hell, they either are unsure it’s him doing all of this stuff or are for whatever reason unwilling to accept that maybe, just maybe, the crazy old guy who’s been giving them wide-eyed stares and sinister smiles this whole time might actually be a threat. You can’t believe how stupid these main characters are, a problem that starts and ends with the script which gives neither Ealy nor Good anything to work with outside of acting dumb as hell for 102 minutes, and their blind ignorance is so mind-boggling, especially when Quaid is clearly acting crazy throughout the whole thing (trust me, we’re going to talk about Dennis Quaid in this review), that it very quickly becomes hilarious to watch, like you’re watching clowns perform slapstick in the most banal of circuses.
