TRANCE. (R16)(101 min)
Directed by Danny Boyle.Starring James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson.
It starts well. James McAvoy is a mild mannered assistant auctioneer in charge of security arrangements for a stunningly valuable old painting.
Vincent Cassel, in this year’s least surprising bit of casting, is the psychopathic but ever-so-urbane thief with the genius plan. McAvoy, trying to save the painting, decides to be a hero, and gets himself nutted with the butt end of dirty great gun for his trouble. Cassel escapes, but when he gets back to his villain’s lair, he finds that the painting is missing from its frame.