Trap (2024)

[Laurie4H]

I thought this was fun.  You have to completely suspend reality but it’s entertaining and Josh Hartnett is great in it.  

[AimingforYoko]

7 hours ago, Laurie4H said:

You have to completely suspend reality

Any law enforcement entity who came up with that plan needs to be abolished.

I did not expect it to be as funny as it was. I put that down to Hartnett's performance.

[Giuseppe]

I saw it Saturday and was a bit underwhelmed. I guess I'm used to M Night's movies having some epic twist, but this was just pretty straightforward. I kept expecting to find out the daughter was somehow the one behind the abductions and her dad was covering for her, lol. Or maybe the twist was just finding out that the wife is the one who set him up in the first place.

Josh Hartnett's acting choices were really weird and stilted to me. Haley Mills as the lead detective seemed really random and under-utilized. The plot with the mom of the girl who was mean to Cooper's daughter felt out of place....really, what was the point of that?

BUT, overall, wasn't too bad.

[oliviabenson]

Josh reminded me of Tom Cruise. Both are alien like.

[Spartan Girl]

Well, this was a new low for M. Night Shyamalan.

To paraphrase Peter Quill, I don’t need another movie about some impotent whack-job whose mommy didn’t love him! Don’t we get enough of that shit on Netflix?!

Hayley Mills was a nice surprise.

And the audacity of him raving at his wife and blaming her for the reason he’s never gonna see his kids again…sir, you are a serial killer and you’re the reason your victims’ families are never going to see them again.

I would have preferred it if the movie had went on two minutes longer and instead cutting to black when he freed himself, they had one of the SWAT team guys promptly put a bullet in his stupid sneering face the second he tried something. How’s that for subverting expectations, Shyamalan?

Edited October 30, 2024 by Spartan Girl

[lasu]

On 10/29/2024 at 7:23 PM, Spartan Girl said:

Hayley Mills was a nice surprise

Get it?? It was a movie about a parent...trap. I can't even, lol. 

[Anela]

On 11/6/2024 at 7:42 PM, lasu said:

Get it?? It was a movie about a parent...trap. I can't even, lol. 

lol, I didn't get it. That's cute.

[xls]

I like it, it kept me riveted.

I liked see Haley Mills too, I was a big fan of her's as a child

Lady Raven is M. Night Shyamalan daughter! 

I thought his wife had poisoned the pie; he was looking kinda dopey when he got up from the table.

 

[Chaos Theory]

I liked it a lot more then I thought I would but then again I am a  big fan of bad guys being the protagonist of shows/movies.   I thought the movie mostly worked.   I liked the twist of the wife being the person who set him up.  The last couple minutes weren’t needed though.  I would have just preferred it end with him getting arrested 

[iarwain]

On 12/24/2024 at 6:20 PM, Chaos Theory said:

I would have just preferred it end with him getting arrested 

The way it ended, I was thinking they were setting it up for a potential sequel.  All in all, I enjoyed it, seemed like typical M. Night Shyamalan fare.  Including the rather ridiculous idea of the trap being set at the concert.  Still, silliness has never stopped me from watching Shyamalan's movies before.  I've seen most of his movies, so obviously there's something I like there.