Trap - Review

M. Night Shyamalan is back with his latest puzzling, frustratingly incoherent thriller.

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[alexmaverick]

Good thing that t shirt vendor gave him all the details needed to get the plot going lol.

[rocket]

I’m actually her uncle, her mother’s brother.

This is a real line of dialogue delivered by M. Night himself to Josh Hartnet’s character.

[dylanhamilton]

You know it’s gonna be a good review when Dan makes that face 😂

[Sharpe]

Someone get Denis Villeneuve on the phone and tell him to give Josh Hartnett a role.

[d.a.baracus]

Sees Will Smith propping up the acting/music careers of his 2 children...

M. Night Shyamalan: Hold my chardonnay...

[mrericengle]

The plot holes were astonishing. I mean he literally could have just walked out of the concert at any time. They literally had nothing on him. The only way he possibly gets caught is confessing.

[llclouse]

Theory: M. Night Shyamalan is secretly identical twins like in The Prestige, but one is talented and the other isn’t

[Antonio_Ortiz]

5:21: When I heard Hayley Mills, I was thinking, "*that* Hayley Mills?"

[kolchak]

Counterpoint: M. Night knowing he writes weird, unnatural dialogue and then making his protagonist a complete psychopath so it fits was a stroke of genius.

[CasualNerdReactions]

My biggest issues in the movie were clarified by the singer being his daughter. There was a lost of good moments in there, but I couldn't grasp why we were seeing so much of the concert or why the singer took on the role she did in the film.

[vtrip_]

we have entered the Shyamalan nepo baby era.
first the watchers and now this.

[tshegofatsoletlape]

How abt a movie where M Night, Tyler Perry and Zack Snyder are Trapped in a room filled with good writers..😂😂😂😂

[Maulbert]

The highlight for me really was Josh Harnett. I don't think this movie is watchable without his performance.

[KSchorrWriter]

"as if they have never had a human interaction before" --- THAT was awesome!

[Yachirobi]

Damnit, I was looking forward to this. Shyamalan did his daughter a disservice with the nepotism.

[MACK]

The real trap is he tricked us into listening to he's daughter sing

[willTFsLife]

Josh Hartnett’s been back a while with Penny Dreadful, Oppenheimer and that really amazing Black Mirror episode

[hMyGandhi]

Haven't seen this movie but weird, stilted dialogue can be amazing when done right. David Lynch's entire body of work is basically a masterclass in uncanny dialogue and conversations that seem like dream-like approximations of human interaction. For me, it made something like Twin Peaks so effective and unsettling.

And like Lynch's movies, the Silent Hill franchise is the same exact way, with strange pauses, flat affect, and circular dialogue that seems to almost fold in on itself to the point where the words themselves suddenly lose meaning. (A premise that the movie Pontypool uses brilliantly).

Signs had some interesting dialogue, especially the scene with the military recruiter, and it felt super intentional. But nowadays, who knows?

[robbie]

How did the cops just randomly become completely stupid at the end of the movie, they do this huge elaborate scheme at the venue with 1000s of cops and then when they find exacly where he is they bring 3 cars and LEAVE HIM ALONE in the back of the van. AND NO ONE CHECKED A SECOND TIME TO FIND THE GIANT METAL ROD. I just cant

[robbie]

I swear some of the characters had ps2 video game lines, like the one lady backstage randomly telling Hartnetts character that the only people thay dont need to be security checked are raven and her group, literally out of no where. There was absolutely no reason to tell him that it seemed like a quest or something like each side chatacter was trying to help him get to the next level of escaping.