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.

Unlawful Entry is a tense, uncomfortable home invasion thriller where the intruder is the one person who should protect you from that sort of thing: a police officer. It's a perfect concept for a thriller and here its executed to spine tingling effect, through great performances and an intimately hair raising atmosphere. Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe play a well to do yuppie couple whose house is broken into by a petty thief one night. The officer who answers their call the next day (Ray Liotta) is friendly, helpful and goes out of his way to ensure that a security system is installed and that they feel safe. His kindness takes a creepy turn though, when he sets his sights on beautiful Stowe, Russell's wife. He gets scarier and scarier, eventually becoming totally unhinged and zoning right in on her with volatile lust and unhealthy sociopathic obsession that tears all three lives apart. Liotta is scary good, and his eerie transformation from likable upstanding guy to violent stalker madman is something from a nightmare. Some scenes are downright nasty to keep your eyes on, and you really feel sick watching Stowe get exposed to this cruelty. She's darkly radiant as always though, and Russell shows fear and fury in an awesome role that isn't an easy one to play. Domestic thrillers are a dime a dozen, and often can descend into seedy melodrama, but this one takes the high road and uses genuine skill and well orchestrated tension to glue us in our seats.

Awful thriller , i don't care but amazon is to blame them idiots made me waste my time with this garbage by giving it star. But i don't bother im not wasting time again , this film is not interesting it is loaded with sexual acts and a creepy bad guy who stalks Kurt Russel and his wife and then it is just the two fighting over her, so the story is very stupid and the acting is not intriguing as the film is just tame for the revenge scenes and just , violent acts, a villain, cops on the go, Kurt Russel in the film that that could have been classic, this is not a 90s class film it is more like a film today , overrated for moderate threat and gun fights and blood.

The direction, the production, the cinematography of it.. well, none shows something more than "decent". With boldness, and not much of talent, Kurt Russell took the role of the innocent protagonist, not the flashy antagonist. Anyway, Ray Liotta wiped him off the screen. But, again, greatness isn't anywhere close. So, in brief, this movie has just 3 points that overstepped decent to distinct.1) It's another modern-day Cape Fear. The book-smart peaceable vs. The street-smart provocative. In Cape Fear (1962), the stalker was a sadist criminal who, after feeling wronged by certain social class, cannonades his revenge. Play Misty for Me (1971) came to put a lot of absolute craziness, and a lot of true love, to the mix. Now one year after a remake of the original, Cape Fear (1991), Unlawful Entry comes along as a new entry, with sly psychopathic lover, who happens to be a police officer.The distractive power this time gets a long legal hand. It fits as a thrilling device (at one point, the criminal / officer gets the book-smart peaceable husband into jail easily). Furthermore, it could work in terms of being a satire towards twisted cops, even if lightly. 2) Madeleine Stowe's special beauty, if not heavy sexuality. She was something else as one-of-a-kind hottie and talented actress as well. 3) The cell phone of Russell's character. Oh my god, here's something for the historians. It exemplifies how cinema, one way or another, chronicles the world's details. Sure back then they had to rent a lorry to convey that *cell* along the way !The thing is everything was light. At one moment the husband is seduced by the force of the dark side, but of course nothing of that matter was well explored or utilized. Because the movie chose earlier being a routinely-made pure commercial, not urban horror with anything deep. So, this time Max Cady reincarnates as a desperately in love officer, Madeleine Stowe gets naked on a table, and Kurt Russell, as many people in 1992, had a giant brick as a cell phone. Save that, it's a trite TV movie with names of Hollywood stars on it.