Trap (2024)

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.