Unlawful Entry

1992 "Desire, passion, lust... It's a deadly game of obsession."
6.4| 1h52m| R| en| More Info
Released: 26 June 1992 Released
Producted By: 20th Century Fox
Country: United States of America
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After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops who answered their call. He helps them install a security system, begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol angling to pry into the couple's problems with the wife. The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help.

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Jonathan Kaplan

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AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks
NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!
Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Jakoba True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
tatianavoloshka A couple are rudely awakened in the middle of the night by an intruder. The next day two police officers come to check on them and file a complaint. One of them- played slyly by an in-form Ray Liotta develops a fixation on the wife. This fixation leads to everything from stalking to murder and death. Unlawful Entry is a decent early 90s psychological thriller starring Kurt Russell and Madeline Stowe as the bothered couple with the aforementioned Ray Liotta playing the perfect sociopathic creep that makes life hell for them. For Liotta's fine turn this movie is a recommendation.
adonis98-743-186503 After a break-in at their house, a couple gets help from one of the cops that answered their call. He helps them install the security system, and begins dropping by on short notice and unofficial patrol, and spends a lot of time discussing the couple's problems with the wife. The husband begins wondering if they're getting too much help. Unlawful Entry benefits from Ray Liotta's, Kurt Russell's and Madeline Stowe's perfomances but for those who might expect a little bit more? It's kind of a disappointing and watchable messy thriller because the film i think could have been better if Liotta didn't started turning crazy but whatever still watchable 90's film. (6/10)
richspenc This was a very interesting movie. I have a few questions as an amateur movie critic but all in all this movie was definitely not boring. Kurt Russell (Michael Carr) and his wife Gwendolyn (Madaline Stowe, who is extremely sexy in a steamy nude sex scene) live in a nice upper middle class LA house that gets broken into by a lowdown thug. Michael, which may or may not have been a bad move, trips him and then runs up to him threatening to whack him with a golf club which may or may not be the reason the sonofabitch (as Michael called him) put a knife up to Gwen's throat. That issue goes back to the law that once an intruder has broken into your home, whatever you do to him is nice and legal. There has been debate on that though, that only certain circumstances when they're broken in your home, is it legal to do something to them. I believe it would have to be an immediate kind of self defense or wife or kid defense situation, or else you could still be changed with assault or manslaughter. I'm not 100% sure on that, and since when Michael tripped the intruder it wasn't an immediate defense situation like it was a minute later when he had the knife to Gwen's throat. He could've been attempting a citizen's arrest, so he probably didn't do anything wrong. Next scene enter the police officers Ray Laotta (Pete) and his assistant who, after scolding Michael and Gwen's not very good watch cat (lol), begin to take very good care of the couple in light of their bad experience. Pete goes out and beyond. He not only gets the forensics crew over there the next day to dust for prints, etc. He personally helps the alarm system company install a system in the house. Michael, Gwen, and Pete really hit it off. He joins them for dinner and invites Michael for a ride along the following night.Pete crossed over some lines as the film progressed. In my opinion though, I didn't think Pete did anything wrong as soon as Michael thought he did. Later on in the movie, I definitely found Pete to be psychotic. I did notice little hints even early on of Michael feeling a little overwhelmed from by him attaching himself on a little too much a little too soon even when generally Michael was still being happy and friendly back towards Pete. For instance, when Pete asked Michael about the ride along, Michael was pleased at the idea, but when Pete said "how about Tomorrow?", I noticed how Michael then hesitated for a second as if thinking it was maybe it was a little too much too soon. The end of the ride along was when the plot thickened. It was when Pete caught the knife wielding intruder, it looked like Michael was totally on Pete's side saying "yes! That's him!". And Pete said to the thug "Ya hear that!? You've just been made!" The second after Pete said that was when the fault came in; for some reason I just can't understand, Michael suddenly switched over to taking the thug's side. Pete was rough on him, but Michael automatically started feeling sorry for him. If you saw someone beating up someone who broke into your house and assaulted and threatened your wife, would you feel sorry for him for getting beaten up? Neither would I. Michael's wife pinpointed it, "I just don't share your newfound sympathy for the man who broke into our home and put a goddam knife to my throat!" No kidding! Then Michael, during the opening night of his new nightclub, yells at Pete to get out of his life. That was just so unnecessary. If Michael was really wanting Pete to give him and Gwen some space, there were definitely better ways to handle it, especially since Pete was a cop. Michael was a freakin moron for talking to Pete that way, especially with the circumstances. That was the big fault of the movie. As much as Michael was the one at fault up to that point, there was still no excuse for the things Pete did next. Of course if Michael didn't act so stupid, Pete wouldn't have done them. But still, Pete became the one in the wrong in the scenes following the nightclub scene. Pete started getting obsessed with getting some sweet revenge on Michael. He rigged the system to make it where he owed $600 in parking tickets, put a boot on his car, and walked in on Michael and his wife having sex after the cat tripped the alarm. Pete then crosses over into psychotic territory. He knocked Michael to the ground and put a gun to his face, frames him for being a major drug dealer with Michael looking at a few years of hard time, made a lot of noise about taking Michael's wife (and tried to when Michael was locked up), and murdered two people. Michael's lawyer friend bails him out of jail by putting up his house and his savings, now that's a good friend. You'll very rarely ever find someone who'll do that for you. Michael tells him about how it's all about him wanting his wife. I think it's a combination of that and revenge from the nightclub scene, Michael filing a formal complaint to Pete's superior, and Michael crying about Pete to Pete's partner Roy. Roy takes Michael's side which sure doesn't help matters, actually it results into Pete fatally shooting Roy. He also kills a friend of Michael's wife in Michael and Gwen's house and stuffs her body into the closest. What a deranged psychopath. Pete is played by Ray Liotta who has been very good at playing psychopaths. He plays similar type roles in "Goodfellas" and in "Something wild" with Jeff Daniels.
Ben Parker 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.