Memorable, crazy movie

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I miss movies like this, way more simpler but you can tell the quality that went on it. Specially in the acting Kurt Russell, Madeleine Stowe and specially Ray Liota he is the one that's stands out as an obsessive psychopath, he nails it perfectly as he is a shallow charming guy but deep inside he is demented. What gets me in this movie than the films today of the same genre is the attention to detail, how they explore the characters making them feel authentic and true to their nature. Even if it feels "old" I highly recommend it. It's a movie for any day a Wednesday night or a Sunday afternoon.

All you need to know about Unlawful Entry is that its title is a pun. Ray Liotta is typecast as the creepy weirdo who has designs on somebody else's Madaleine Stowe. This might have played as a twist if not for the fact that Ray Liotta is physically incapable of playing a good guy. The only real question is what he wants: does he want the money or the wife? Kurt Russell's character is completely blind about it though. I was shouting at my Laserdisc player at one point: anyone who tells Ray Liotta their security password has clearly never seen a Ray Liotta movie before. The only other thing worth talking about here is the audacity of the title. It has two meanings. There's a house break-in. There's also a sexual assault. I honestly can't believe that passed quality control. Its just an icky title.Movie is totally tepid and predictable. Do not recommend.

The direction, the production, the cinematography of it.. well, none shows something more than "decent". With boldness, and not much of talent, Kurt Russell took the role of the innocent protagonist, not the flashy antagonist. Anyway, Ray Liotta wiped him off the screen. But, again, greatness isn't anywhere close. So, in brief, this movie has just 3 points that overstepped decent to distinct.1) It's another modern-day Cape Fear. The book-smart peaceable vs. The street-smart provocative. In Cape Fear (1962), the stalker was a sadist criminal who, after feeling wronged by certain social class, cannonades his revenge. Play Misty for Me (1971) came to put a lot of absolute craziness, and a lot of true love, to the mix. Now one year after a remake of the original, Cape Fear (1991), Unlawful Entry comes along as a new entry, with sly psychopathic lover, who happens to be a police officer.The distractive power this time gets a long legal hand. It fits as a thrilling device (at one point, the criminal / officer gets the book-smart peaceable husband into jail easily). Furthermore, it could work in terms of being a satire towards twisted cops, even if lightly. 2) Madeleine Stowe's special beauty, if not heavy sexuality. She was something else as one-of-a-kind hottie and talented actress as well. 3) The cell phone of Russell's character. Oh my god, here's something for the historians. It exemplifies how cinema, one way or another, chronicles the world's details. Sure back then they had to rent a lorry to convey that *cell* along the way !The thing is everything was light. At one moment the husband is seduced by the force of the dark side, but of course nothing of that matter was well explored or utilized. Because the movie chose earlier being a routinely-made pure commercial, not urban horror with anything deep. So, this time Max Cady reincarnates as a desperately in love officer, Madeleine Stowe gets naked on a table, and Kurt Russell, as many people in 1992, had a giant brick as a cell phone. Save that, it's a trite TV movie with names of Hollywood stars on it.

A sterling entry in the psycho-thriller genre, mainly thanks to Ray Liotta's performance as the manic cop. Rarely has Liotta been this good: he literally simmers with pent-up rage whenever you see him on-screen, delivering one of the best turns of his career as the frightening cop from hell. Sure, Liotta could be good elsewhere – who can forget his career-changing turn in Scorsese's GOODFELLAS? – but he'll be forever remembered for the kind of sweaty, crazy-eyed role he effortlessly portrays here.Liotta's given solid support from Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe as the unwitting couple who find themselves caught up in a nightmare. This is the archetypal 'slow burner' of a plot, with everyday events and subtle hints and clues gradually building from an impressive climax, which makes use of plenty of clichés but nevertheless ticks all the right boxes. UNLAWFUL ENTRY is one of those thrillers that doesn't disappoint, and unlike PACIFIC HEIGHTS it isn't spoilt with dated attempts at style. Thumbs up.