Tryst (2005) User Reviews

Deadly dull!

[JohnHowardReid · 3/10 · 9 May 2018]

I heartily agree with the majority here. This movie had the makings of an engaging thriller, but both the writer and the director muffed their chances. The male players did not help either. Admittedly, Natalia McLennan fills her role for the most part with an engaging sexiness, but the two male leads are both uninspired and boring.

The plot is as thin as a blade of grass -- not that we see any grass! What we have here is snow, snow and more snow.

I will admit that the movie does have a promising start, but this is soon negated by the exceptionally dull and routine plot. When you are dealing with a plot as ho-hum and uninspired as this one, it is the director's job to spark up the performances. This, director John Barrett Ashmore failed to do.

All three players seem to have just one cardinal emotion. As noted above, heroine Natalia McLennan is sexy. Not super-super-sexy, but moderately so. The men, on the other hand, are dead boring -- moderately so when they first come on, but totally wearisome at journey's end.

don't waste your money or time

[jleon25 · 1/10 · 13 September 2017]

This movie is idiotic. I tried to really watch it until they get to the pot smoking. The husband starts to dance with his wife, and the guest cuts in, then tells the husband he is going to kiss her. You can hardly make out what the husband says but I guess he approves it. Then the wife and guest stop dancing and the wife proceeds to go topless and goes down on Frenchy in front of her husband. She can see her husband eyes tearing up, yet she still goes on with it.

You can clearly see that she just wasn't about to give Frenchy oral sex. She was going down, on him, doing the act.while her husband was watching. You can hear her gagging and him moaning. This slut was giving a guy she just met a day or two ago oral sex while her dumb ass husband was in front of them. Finally, the husband grows a spine and breaks up her oral sex act, she is preforming right in front of his eyes, roughs him up, and throws the guy out. After he shuts the door, she says to him that he might be hurt. What about the husband you just hurt by doing oral sex to a stranger?

So far, I can believe something like this could happen. All three were high on pot. She probably had sex already with the French caretaker. The first morning they woke up, he was alone in his bed. Gets dressed and sees footsteps in the snow, leading up to another room that the wife slept in, instead in the same room as her husband woke up in.

The evening before, she claimed the cabin was cold. The, why wasn't she sleeping in the same room and bed? That's what it looked like when he woke up alone and tracked the other guys footsteps to her room and saw her fully naked and getting dressed. It doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out someone else was keeping her warm over night. Yet the husband never questions her. He never questioned the slut he was married to.

What ticked me off was when the following night, after she spends a whole day at the French guys house, supposedly taking care of his sores that her husband gave him as he filled his wife's mouth with his beef jerky, and feeding him. Feeding him what? I guess "Hair Pie". Then she comes back home and says she was sorry for NOT accepting his apology of HIM over-reacting about her, his wife, preforming Fellatio on a guy she just met. This idiot husband was trying to apologize? Is this for real? Do guys like this really exist? Is this proper etiquette even in France?

Where the hell is her apology for going down on the guy in front of her husband. She claimed it was just a mistake. Yea like his member just happened to fall in her mouth. Then she bends over and lets her husband do her backdoor style. Maybe something she picked up from the caretaker. I guess you can chalk that up to "Guilty Sex".

Is this writer an idiot for real? When he sees his wife go down on the guy, that's not jealousy. That's called cheating, infidelity. This is how a couple having a rough time with their marriage go away to a secluded cabin to try to fix their marriage? By the wife having sex with the first guy that comes along? Some getaway.

After this fiasco, it was all downhill. We are left more of her disappearing act. Is she with the guy? She comes back after we hear a gun shot in the woods. Did she kill her new-found boyfriend or did he kill himself? After she ran her husband over and pinned him under the car alive, did she go for help or left him for dead? Was at least, one of the deaths, if only one, investigated?

Don't waste a dime or your time on this crap movie.

P.S. I now found out why the actress, Natalia McLennan, played such a convincing whore/slut. In her real life, while pursuing an acting career in New York, she was working as a call girl under the name "Natalia". Not too original, if I say so myself.

She was the wife of the owner of the famous "NY Confidential Escort Service" and her #1 ESCORT at a price of $2000/hour. Maybe this was more of a "Self Portrait" of her life than a stupid movie. Maybe she wasn't acting much and the sex on set was real. Do a search of her name and See this for yourself.

Bait & Switch

[sheperdigian · 1/10 · 15 December 2007]

Billed as a steamy thriller it was actually an improbable story about two people acting in ways no real people would. They had all the elements of a good plot, but developed not a single line. The sound was terrible and one might have thought the film was shot with consumer grade equipment. The film was somewhere between black & white and color, but it was no recognizable format I can recall. There wasn't even any decent steam! You watch the movie shaking your head and repeating "this is stupid." Poorly written, poorly acted, and poorly produced the best thing about this flick was the misleading jacket cover that induced me to rent. I'm sorry I did. We ended up watching the second half on fast forward just to see what happens. They billed it as a sexy love triangle with a deadly outcome, but the only death is from a self administered gun shot taken to avoid freezing to death.

Terrible Movie

[generalmusicfan · 1/10 · 18 March 2021]

Unless you want to walk away with an empty and depressing feeling, I wouldn't suggest that you torture yourself.

Sexy, mysterious thriller.

[flixfan404 · 10/10 · 25 March 2005]

I saw this movie at a festival in Monteal and I can't wait till it comes out. It was by far the best film I've seen at a festival in a long time. Jon Ashmore had me on the edge of my seat with this spooky, erotic thriller. Cool cinematography, good acting and the lead actress is smokin'! It started out kind of slow, so I wasn't sure where it was going but once the plot turned, it got disturbing quick. I wish there were more movies that took the chances this one took. In its own quiet way it explores marital desperation in a way that can only be described as true. My only complaint is with its "Hollywood" action adventure scenes towards the end. They seemed a little out of place in such a thoughtful and thought provoking movie.

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[dgracefan · 6/10 · 19 January 2008]

this movie reminded me of Vacancy except the 3rd party wasn't so much a neurotic killer, but more of a player with women...

the cast had only 3 characters...kind of an odd movie, but still cool if ur in an isolated mood...definitely liked the European/romantic flavor...the woman was pretty hot and sexy...I didn't get where the movie took place, as in country or state...the winter setting indicated somewhere probably in canada...The front cover of the jacket had a hot Asian woman on it, and there was no Asian woman in the movie, so it was kind of deceiving, since that was part of the appeal for renting it...but the plot was pretty much as described so no complaints there

Others

[kosmasp · 6/10 · 17 August 2022]

Kudos to whoever did the cover/poster. It really is enticing. It also could be considered false advertising. Considering this is not what you get when you watch the movie - no offense to the six packs and long legs depicted, but this is not in the movie.

That being said, there are exactly the amount of people that are involved in the movie as depicted on the cover. Two men and a cup (or is two cups? Sorry for the pun and if you don't get the joke don't worry). Anyway, if a relationship is broken (or almost broken), is there a way to fix it? And will an enclosed enviroment help that situation or worsen it? I guess you'll be able to tell early on where this is heading ... or staying.