One of my all time favorites.

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The Trigger Effect is a movie I'm not proud to like, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't. It wasn't a fantastic thriller, but it shouldn't get the beating it's getting on IMDb, Netflix, and every other review site. The acting isn't phenomenal, the plot isn't much, but the events in the film keep you at least interesting and hoping for the best. In the long run, The Trigger Effect is not the worst thing to come out of movies ever.Sometimes, I believe, when a movie is panned by critics and moviegoers, a film gets bad reviews by everyone whether they like it or not. I looked on the IMDb Bottom 100 before writing this review, and thought, there's got to be one person out there that likes some of these films. I scanned about twenty, and the twenty I picked had no review above two out of ten. My point; not everyone can hate a movie. It can't be so bad no one likes it. This is kind of how I feel with this film and the 1996 comedy Bio-Dome which I found to be an entertaining film. The only difference with The Trigger Effect is I could find someone who liked Bio-Dome. I have yet to find someone that (honestly) admits they like The Trigger Effect.The film has no real plot. It takes place in Southern California where our two protagonists reside. Matt (Kyle MacLachlan) and Annie (Elizabeth Shue) return home from the movies to find their infant screaming with an ear ache. Matt calls a doctor who promises to have a prescription filled by morning. In the middle of the night, the neighbors wake to find a the town has blacked out. Matt arrives at the pharmacy to find out the doctor didn't call in the prescription, so he resorts to stealing the medicine for the baby.Matt's brother Joe (Dermot Mulroney) arrives at the house to convince the couple to buy a gun for security since the blackout is causing very strange behavior amongst the town. When purchasing the gun, the four come to the consensus that they must take a trip to wife's parent's house. Soon enough, all hell breaks loose.The film is no masterpiece, but it shouldn't get the beating it is taking on the web now. It's a very least intriguing. You want to know what happens to these innocent people. You want to follow them through this journey through hell. As most of these events occur, they trigger another thing to happen (obviously why the film's title is what it is). Clearly the person behind this idea wanted no light at the end of the tunnel. Just like the film Where the Heart Is or The Quiet, they wanted no light at the end of the tunnel.Upon it's release, it grossed a mere $1,887,791, and ranked 12th at the Box Office. It came up very short compared to it's $8,000,000 budget. It went on to gross around $3,000,000 in it's entirety, and lead on to never being spoken about again. While I think in no means it should be praised, it should at least be recognized for doing the job it did. It didn't want to be bad, but then again no movie does. It just showed it's limitations on screen, and nothing more. It doesn't want to be anything more than it's budget allows. It's a good thing and a bad thing simultaneously.Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue, and Dermot Mulroney. Directed by: David Koepp.

As many people have said, "The Trigger Effect" is one of those movies that has a good concept, but isn't executed very well. The truth is, it actually gets kind of creepy. I know, if there was a massive power outage, maybe this could happen, but that doesn't make the movie any more interesting. If we're just going to obsess on the idea that everyone wants to kill each other, we're not doing very much for our society (remember what Michael Moore showed in "Bowling for Columbine"). I mean really.So, there are much better movies than this (including the "Twilight Zone" episode that this movie ripped off). Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney and Michael Rooker should be at least mildly ashamed of themselves.

People do things that are considered crazy all the time in normal functioning society, with all the comforts that come with it and make life more bearable. Someone pisses you off? Ah, to hell with it, you go and have a nice cold one, turn on the TV, and watch seinfeld deliver sugarcoated antisocial commentary resonating perfectly with your state of mind. But what if you couldn't have a cold one, couldn't see your TV friend agree with you, and would have to face the events of the day much earlier as the nightly electrical distractions become unavailable? Then you have "the trigger effect". Many people find it far fetched, conceived, self-indulgent, frivolous. They do so out of their air-conditioned apartment, eating ready-made microwave popcorn, downloading music for free and waiting for the pizza guy to arrive.

This movie had potential, with themes of paranoia, lust, and panic intertwined...but the characters are plain stupid plus, there is no development of any of them. Elizabeth Shue's character tells Kyle Mc'Laughin that she has a "checkered past" and "you knew about my past when you married me", the viewer has no idea what she is talking about. Maybe she's the same character in the movie she was in before "Leaving Las Vegas" (no way). Plus, who's the friend who just shows up at the door while Kyle and Elizabeth are about to have sex? A family friend? A cousin? The plot has way too many holes and by the end, I could care less about any of the characters in the movie.Poorly done.