Trace Review

Trance Review

Plot
Simon (James Mcavoy) ends up double crossing (Frank) his friend and work partner in a robbing off a famous and expensive painting. However, throughout this act Simon takes a hit to the head and he gains amnesia. So he cannot remember where he placed the painting after he stole it so Frank asks Simon to take hypnotherapy sessions to try and help him think of where he placed, after he stole, because it is worth millions to any owner. Which drags him into remembering old memories and many betrayals



Review
Danny Boyle is admirably unpredictable in his choice of projects. He’s always been hard to get a handle on. Shallow Grave wasn’t the big-screen debut you would expect from someone who’d directed Inspector Morse episodes. Trainspotting and The Beach hinted that he might become a specialist in adapting contemporary cult novels, Danny Boyle has also directed a zombie movie , a space opera and a cut off my own arm true story which i personally enjoyed watching


Trance is an expanded remake of a TV movie written and directed by Joe Ahearne in 2001, opens with a Scorsese style illustrated lecture scene narrated by protagonist Simon, played by James McAvoy with a Scots smart arsiness that can’t help him in a once-upon-a-time Boyle fixture Ewan McGregor in his amoral boyish-grin phase — on art thievery, from the good old black-and-white days when hoods could barge into an auction room with guns and grab a Rembrandt from the wall of a modern world of high-tech security art gallery Then, a gang led by smooth yet foreign Frank (Vincent Cassel) executes a smash and grab raid targeting a £25,000,000 Goya which nets only the empty frame as simon has hidden it somewhere only where he knows