Trap (2024)
4/10
Starring
Josh Hartnett
Ariel Donoghue
Saleka Night Shyamalan
Hayley Mills
Alison Pill
Directed
by M. Night Shyamalan
The first
50 minutes of the movie is amazing, 50% into the movie’s runtime, and you can
feel the wonderful writing of M. Night Shyamalan and the directing for the
first half of the movie is just superb. If the movie ended there, when he gets
to have a one-on-one talk with Lady Raven (the make-believe famous singer in
the movie, played by Shyamalan daughter) it would have been great. But even at
that point, being able to get that close to someone famous seemed so impossible
and out of place, but I was going to let it slide, but the Second Act of this
movie was all about being out of place and just not adding up. Yes, the confrontation
with the killer is before us and his next actions are important, but it was
like Shyamalan ran out of ideas. How he was able to get that close to a famous
singer and get that singer to co-operate with him to the point shown in this
movie is outrageous and damn lazy writing. The final act of this movie was
awful. If I was told this movie was written by someone who was having his first
break, I would not have felt bad, but this is M. Night Shyamalan – how can he
write such a horrible third act? It was just too obvious he did not want to
kill the character off. No way, anyone will attack an officer and not get shot.
The movie is
about a man, a serial killer who takes his daughter to a concert of the famous
musician Lady Raven, and he notices that there are a lot of police officers
about and FBI agents. He is suspicious, and he starts to get familiar with the
people working there, asking innocent questions, to gain their trust and finds
out that they are there looking for him, even though they do not know what he
looks like.
He has no idea
how they know he will be there, or how they plan to find him, all he knows is
that he needs to get out of this concert and not let his daughter know that
something is up.
We get to watch
how he cons his way to people’s trust and use all these to get around the
police. We see how he tries to keep his family together while trying to escape
from the police and keep his identity a secret.
It will be hard
for me to say, go and watch this movie when I know that halfway through, it
goes from thrilling fun watch, to downright disappointment.
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