TRANCE

I am never seeing another movie with James McAvoy. He's not a good actor and his entire persona is that of a squishy, too soft, pubertal teenager. Even that wonderful movie about Idi Amin starring Forest Whittaker was ruined by McAvoy's presence.

I rated this 0.5 of a star or maybe a smidgen of coal. Bill gave it a 5 because it was "good enough" to get him out of his funk over an investment which was tanking.

McAvoy is an auctioneer who was involved in the theft of a picture but he was hit on the head during the robbery and forgot where he hid it. So Vincent Cassel (whose talents were totally wasted in this garbage of a film) hired a hypnotist to help McAvoy remember the hiding place. This set-up of the story was the only part that was mildly interesting. After this, the film devolved into memories versus reality and a lot of swirling colors to depict hypnotic states and way too loud and ponderous music and an ever increasing sense of ennui and lethargy on my part as my slight interest in where the artwork was hidden died a trancelike death.

And the ending was horrid; even worse than what went before. It was devoid of any rationality.