Trauma |  | Director: Marc Evans
Actors: Colin Firth, Naomie Harris, Dorothy Duffy, Cornelius Booth, Dermot Murnaghan
Studio: First Look Pictures
Category: DVD
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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: FLPD60099D
UPC: 687797600998
EAN: 0687797600998
ASIN: B0008ENI20
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Release Date: June 14, 2005
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Waking in a hospital bed ben learns that his wife was killed in the same car accident that put him in a coma for a week. His disorientation & feelings of guilt are amplified by the media frenzy gripping london following the murder of a pop star - a crime in which for some reasonhe seems implicated. Or is he? Studio: First Look Home Entertain Release Date: 09/02/2008 Starring: Colin Firth Mena Suvari Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R Director: Marc Evans
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 When you're COlin Firth, sometimes you get an Oscar nod, and sometimes you get this. March 16, 2010
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
Trauma (Marc Evans, 2004)
I saw My Little Eye last year and wasn't quite sure what to make of it. Now I've seen Evans' follow-up, Trauma, another venture into the psychological-thriller realm with a much bigger cast, and my estimation of My Little Eye has gone down a notch with regards to the ability of those involved in its making, but compared to this mess, it's brilliant.
Ben (Colin Firth) awakens from a coma after a car accident in which his wife (Naomie Harris) was killed. He tries to go on with his life, going back to work with his partner Tommy (Sons of Anarchy's Tommy Flanagan) and trying to figure out whether the cute blonde down the hall, Charlotte (American Beauty's Mena Suvari), is really as interested in him as he thinks she is. Problem is he can't quite leave the past entirely behind. You see, Ben's wife was a backup dancer for a very popular singer who's been missing since just before the car accident, and both the paparazzi and the police are very interested in Ben. And they don't believe him when he tells them he doesn't remember much before the accident. But the real bombshell comes when a hint is dropped that perhaps Ben's wife didn't die in the car accident at all, sending him on a fervent, out-of-control search for the truth.
The movie has drawn a lot of comparisons to Mulholland Dr., and not without cause, but I was put more in mind of Pal Sletaune's excellent, and not nearly seen enough, thriller Naboer. Which is far better put together and makes a whole lot more sense, but all three movies have a good deal in common. Mulholland Dr. made my hundred best movies of the decade list, and Naboer ended up being the last film I cut, so you can certainly infer (correctly) that I'm a big fan of movies where you're not exactly sure what's going on. But Evans made a complete muddle of this from the get-go, and he's not a director of the caliber of Lynch (back when his movies still made sense, anyway) or Sletaune. I'm a huge fan of Tommy Flanagan's, and I usually find Firth and Harris enjoyable, but they all feel wooden here. It doesn't help that Evans is obviously linked to the whole mumblecore thing; one of the most common complaints you'll see about the film on its IMDB board is that you can't understand what Colin Firth is saying half the time (and not because of his accent). And that's from people who saw it in a theater; given the usual quality of vocal transfer to DVD, what I saw was damn near unintelligible all the way through. As well, where Lynch's film takes on the confusion by making the whole thing dreamlike, and Sletaune's by making his film from the gritty-realism angle, Evans can't seem to decide on one approach, and flips back and forth between the two. (This approach was actually done to excellent effect in a Jude Law film called The Wisdom of Crocodiles back in the nineties.) Evans also goes for the ambiguous ending, but his desire to actually explain stuff hamstrings the ambiguity, leaving the viewer with more of a "what's going on?" sense at the end than a burning desire to discuss it (a la Mulholland Dr.).
It could have been a good movie, maybe even a great one. Instead, it feels like a pothole. * ½
 Unpleasant September 25, 2009
Kona (Emerald City)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ben (Colin Firth) was in a bad car accident that killed his wife. As the story opens he's in the hospital, coming out of a coma. He goes back to his creepy apartment building where he is the only resident. He cannot come to terms with his wife's death and hallucinates about her constantly. To make things worse, he finds himself the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a famous rock singer.
Yikes. This is a bad movie. It attempts to be an art film delving into the mind of a mentally ill man, but falls completely flat and is just one long, confusing, and very unpleasant movie. We never know if what we are seeing is real or imagined; it's too hard to follow and totally repellent. Firth does the best he can with the terrible script but I didn't like or care about his character at all. If you're afraid of creepy crawly creatures, this is not the movie for you; the same goes if you're looking for Firth to be a debonair heartthrob. Not recommended.
Boring is too good a word for this. August 25, 2008
Sheila Bloom (Alexandria, VA United States)
Watching this makes watching grass grow look good. I cannot believe Colin Firth would make a movie that is beyond amateurish. I've seen bad movies and this is as bad as it can be. It seemed to be about five hours long, 4 hours and 59 seconds too long.
If you suffer from insomnia, this would be a great aid to make you sleep.
Boring, slow and uneventful movie ! April 24, 2008
Metallian
I don't want to spend too much time describing this DVD because it is really a boring and uneventful movie that just doesn't get any better with the passage of time (viewing it more than once). I really tried to watch this movie but could never finish it both times that I had given it a 2nd chance. It was so slow and boring and, also irksome was the fact that the traumatized patient of the car accident and the events that followed at times seem absolutely unconnected to the basic plot of the movie. The delusional scenes are, at least for my taste, far too many and make the film confusing to follow.
The main actor was doing a good job, but couldn't rescue the movie. I really disliked this movie, most of all because of its immensely slow pace. I hate DVDs like that. At times the movie really felt like it was not just tiresomely dragging on but as if it had actually come to some sort of stand still juncture that didn't seem to end.
To make a long store short, skip this one, unless you enjoy being bored.
 wow March 7, 2008
M. Bushong (lusby, md usa)
I honestly didn't know what to think after watching this film. It was the ultimate thriller and keeps you going from the beginning. Colin's character is disturbing yet you seem to emphathize with him even after knowing the whole truth. Well done.
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