‘Intrusion’ Review: We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This – The New York Times

Within the easiest phrases, “Intrusion” is a few lady who begins to suppose that her husband could also be as much as one thing sinister. The film makes it instantly apparent, nevertheless, that her husband actually is as much as one thing sinister, as a result of he’s at all times prowling round suspiciously, with ominous music enjoying just about at any time when he’s onscreen. However this can be a feature-length thriller, and it wants to purchase a while and construct suspense, so the trustworthy spouse is obliged to be very, very obtuse and draw some very silly conclusions. It’s an train in watching somebody have the world’s slowest revelation.

The spouse is Meera (Freida Pinto), a most cancers survivor and therapist, and the husband is Henry (Logan Marshall-Inexperienced), an architect who has designed the couple’s modernist dream house in rural Corrales, outdoors of Albuquerque. After their house is burgled, Meera surmises that they could have been focused, and seeks solutions by investigating Henry’s personal life, which is each extremely doubtful and conveniently straightforward to look into. That is a kind of mysteries the place each the suspect and the sleuth hold making the sort of implausible, idiotic errors that generate trite suspense. Henry leaves proof mendacity round with laughable carelessness; Meera roots round his workplace as he’s proper about to stroll within the door.

If “Intrusion” has one redeeming characteristic, it’s Marshall-Inexperienced, whose efficiency because the husband with a darkish secret has a crackling, tightly managed depth way more nuanced and persuasive than the rest within the movie. Marshall-Inexperienced was equally sensational in Karyn Kusama’s wonderful thriller “The Invitation,” however the director of “Intrusion,” Adam Salky, squanders the actor’s terrific work. It’s tempting to think about this materials realized with the maniac verve of a movie like James Wan’s “Malignant,” the place the ridiculous verges on camp, as a substitute of how Salky performs it: thuddingly literal and painfully dumb.

Intrusion
Not rated. Working time: 1 hour 32 minutes. Watch on Netflix.