Cubussoli
Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Noutions
Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
BroadcastChic
Excellent, a Must See
Numerootno
A story that's too fascinating to pass by...
Leparsdon
Saw this film off Netflx thinking it was something else entirely; I mean with a name like "Trois" one would expect something beyond one sex scene and barely any interaction between the two main characters. First it starts off with a husband wanting to fulfill a fantasy with his wife and another woman, after sometime the wife relents and through a friend of the husband, he finds a woman willing to be the third person. Well after a weekend of "hanging out" to get his wife comfortable with the other woman, they have their night of fun and thats apparently the end of the "Trois"Then this film takes a completely different turn, with the husband being unjustifiably horrendous to the other woman and still not giving his wife any attention. From there you have snakes, weird font letters, egged cars, slashed tires and a video of him having sex with another woman earlier in their marriage. This all leads to a showdown with her abusive ex boyfriend, who was posing as her husband's friends the entire film, and somehow a gunshot wound to her sides, leads to her being paralyzed from the waist down and in a wheelchair. Oh yeah, they also get a divorce.Bottom line, DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME!
FyreAndRain
First, the bad: 1) The movie is mis-marketed by the packaging. There is a lot more to Trois than just the complications arising from the forbidden three-way tryst. The movie becomes a mystery/thriller/suspense and the shift is almost disconcerting if all you have to go on is the box art.2) The lighting sucks and the camera work is simplistic. The filmmakers are young and had a small budget and it shows in these two areas. The lighting often makes the viewer feel they've mistakenly changed channels to a daytime soap opera and the camera work (with the exception of the excellent opening "home video" scenes) is nothing to boast about.3) There are about three times in the film that the delivery of a certain line fails completely, and is so bad that it nearly sinks the entire scene in which it appears.4) Is the number of sets used. Literally. Two houses, an office, and a bar. Four sets. That's about it.Now, the good: 1) Excellent acting. The lead for this role does a fantastic job playing a young, ambitious, newlywed husband. All of the additional characters are strong. Every main character has at least one chance to really shine dramatically and they all step up to the challenge. A lame performance never ruins a scene, and the dialogue is (for the most part) delivered convincingly in a natural way.2) Superb production value: "but wait a minute, you just said there were four sets and the lighting sucked!" True, but the budget for this film was $200k. If you handed $200k to the Steven Spielberg or James Cameron, I'm willing to bet they couldn't have managed half of the things this movie does on a shoestring. It's an excellent effort and the results they got for their money are astounding.3) An intriguing, original plot. The story, which starts out relatively simple, takes a couple of twists and turns that actually create a complex web of confusion and deceit that makes the story work.4) An excellent, tasteful sex scene. If you bought this movie hoping for porn, you'll be let down. The sex shots are tight, sensual, and mature. They propel the story forward and do justice to the topic without glamourizing it or taking the focus off the story to focus on the sex.In short: if you feel like lately you've sat through one too many summer 'blockbusters' with the same old hackneyed plots, huge effects, and zero heart, this might be the movie you're looking for. Or if you laughed all the way through "Love and a Bullet" and thought it was excellent, you might like this one.
dredscott
I rented this movie with several friends without any expectations. This movie wasn't worth the price of a rental. The acting, writing, directing and cinematography were all bad. With the exception of Gretchen Palmer, the rest of the cast was so bad you would think they weren't professionals. Wait! Kenya Moore is not a professional actor. Well, that explains it. I've seen many Black-made independent films that were of much higher quality and touched on subjects that we often ignore so this film has no excuse. Please don't waste your time with this movie.
jbratter-2
Trois is a sexy thriller about the before and after-math of a threesome (two girls and a guy). The participants are a young Black married couple in Atlanta who seek to spice up their love life and an openly bisexual woman who wants to keep custody of her son. This film admirably attempts to explore the complex dynamics of monogamous sexuality, from sexual preference to sexual power. The gravest downfall is the attempt to combine too many twists and turns that don't pay off or gel well with the story's initial tone.