Trauma Reviews

Marc Evans: go to your room....

...and think about what you have done. My Little Eye was a truly inventive and fresh little film. This is pretty much the complete opposite in every conceivable way. Trauma opened with Colin Firth coming out of a Coma and continued until the (long overdue) end by driving me into one. Marc Evans is quite clearly capable of far greater things. I suggest he writes out 100 lines 'I will never Traumatise the audience again'. I may well be cured of my insomnia.

Colin Firth you need a new agent

My advice is give this one a miss - I watched this with my parents and the truth is that they both fell asleep and I wish that I had done the same, Colin Firth is so much better than this and lets be honest so are you, do yourself a favour and watch paint dry instead.

Dissapointing

Colin Firth gives a fantastic performance but the movie itself is very slow moving. I couldn't get into the movie and found myself getting quite aggitated waiting for the end! Shame, it could have been so much more.

Nightmare

It's rather heartening to see Colin Firth escape the confines of playing posh stiffs in rom-coms and period dramas, although 'Trauma' isn't an unqualified success. There are hints of the supernatural in this dark thriller, and the real question comes down to whether recently bereaved accident survivor Firth is mad, or really is seeing the ghost of his dead wife.

One twist you'll spot, the other you might not, but while Firth gives a genuinely impressive performance as a man falling apart spectacularly, the tone is uncertain. The film is too grown-up and professional to work as schlock horror, and too concerned with thriller conventions to function as a study of mental illness. You certainly want to know what's going on, but after a crucial revelation 20 minutes before the end, all suspense is extinguished, which makes the climax a matter of how the inevitable will happen, rather than wondering what might happen.

Still, this is very well-made and atmospheric, proving that Marc Evans (whose first horror movie 'My Little Eye' is a personal favourite) might yet be a hope for the future of the shocker in Britain.

Leave alone

Quite simply tedious, leave well alone, my wife is a big fan of Colin Firth and she fell asleep.

My 'Honest' review

What's good...

A strange one for Colin Firth but he does provide the talent and star factor which does help this picture. Mena Survari, best known for her role in American Beauty, also helps reinforce the films credibility.

What's bad...

What initially starts as an intriguing thriller soon turns into a really annoying film. Without doubt the intention was to create a world in which reality and hallucinations morph into one, however after so many scenes of ‘was that real or his he hallucinating…again?!’ it just gets frustrating. There are many scenes like this and a twist but they are just so obvious it gets so frustrating waiting to be proved right.

Pay attention to how many bad reviews there are.

This film had the possibility of being a really good film. But in my opinion the script must have been rushed just to get something out. The story is so weak. I really struggled staying awake during this film. Nothing really happens, the dialogue is appauling. There are so many events happening, but no background story to them or any conection to the main story. You'd be better being labotimised by a surgeon rather than this film. At least they would do a proper job of it.

[Highly rated reviewer]

RRRRRRRRRRR

The title of my review pretty much sums up this film. 'A bunch of R's' or arse if you will.

Ooh look at me, I can make a film full of twists and turns and arty shots. Shame I forgot about the script though.

This film could be something good. but it's not. It never gets there. It tries too hard and fails, leaving the viewer frustrated at the end for expecting so much more from it.

If you want to see a film like this as it should be, then rent out The Machinist with Christian Bale. I suggest the director of this film does the same!!

Trauma

Worst film I have ever seen!!

Disappointing

Very slow film could not really get into it at all, very disppointing and not one I would recommend.