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How bad is this movie? So bad I'd rather watch all of The Happening again than sit through just the last hour of Trap.
It starts off promising... ish. The general premise - cops set a trap for a serial killer at a pop concert, and he tried to find a way out - is interesting as long as you don't scratch the surface of the film's logic and find nonsense beneath it. Roughly the first half is... well, not enjoyable so much as tolerable. Flat characters make stupid decisions, and the justifications for some of those decisions are laughable, but it's at least watchable.
Without spoiling anything, the back half of the film is truly terrible and goes off the rails. What especially makes this grating is that it seems like M. Night Shyamalon makes a series of awful artistic decisions simply because he wants to showcase his daughter, who gets a bigger-than-expected role in the back half. She's certainly not a bad actor, but that's not the problem in the least. Everyone makes decisions that not only are stupid, but are aggressively dangerous for themselves and their loved ones. The pacing is off, the writing is bad, the plot is nonsense... ugh.
Shyamalon is known for twist endings; there isn't one here in any real sense - I suppose there's a "minor" twist near the end, but it's so mind-bogglingly dumb in every way imaginable that it would've been better without it.
Josh Hartnett, who has always been underrated, is really the only saving grace of the film. He's solid and, if he had more to do, he'd have probably given one of the best performances of his career. Alison Pill is always welcome, though she's barely in the movie and has nothing going on. The daughter is good, but it's a simple and easy role.
Truly a movie to skip unless you're an absolutely hardcore Josh Hartnett fan. And even then, it might be better to skip anyway.
It starts off promising... ish. The general premise - cops set a trap for a serial killer at a pop concert, and he tried to find a way out - is interesting as long as you don't scratch the surface of the film's logic and find nonsense beneath it. Roughly the first half is... well, not enjoyable so much as tolerable. Flat characters make stupid decisions, and the justifications for some of those decisions are laughable, but it's at least watchable.
Without spoiling anything, the back half of the film is truly terrible and goes off the rails. What especially makes this grating is that it seems like M. Night Shyamalon makes a series of awful artistic decisions simply because he wants to showcase his daughter, who gets a bigger-than-expected role in the back half. She's certainly not a bad actor, but that's not the problem in the least. Everyone makes decisions that not only are stupid, but are aggressively dangerous for themselves and their loved ones. The pacing is off, the writing is bad, the plot is nonsense... ugh.
Shyamalon is known for twist endings; there isn't one here in any real sense - I suppose there's a "minor" twist near the end, but it's so mind-bogglingly dumb in every way imaginable that it would've been better without it.
Josh Hartnett, who has always been underrated, is really the only saving grace of the film. He's solid and, if he had more to do, he'd have probably given one of the best performances of his career. Alison Pill is always welcome, though she's barely in the movie and has nothing going on. The daughter is good, but it's a simple and easy role.
Truly a movie to skip unless you're an absolutely hardcore Josh Hartnett fan. And even then, it might be better to skip anyway.
A truly brilliant film hindered only by the director's insistence on having every last actor whisper-talk. That's legitimately the only criticism I have with it. The tone is (as you can guess from the title) very dark; I think the movie it's most tonally similar to is Se7en. The story has a lot going on, but nothing's really spoon-fed to the audience. A sentence here and a photo there might tell you a major fact about the characters; the placement of a shot might show something missing that might not register at first; etc. It's a movie to be paid attention to and thought about, not something to be put on in the background.
Although it maybe isn't quite as great as them, Hold the Dark absolutely should be talked about in the same category as Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, Zodiac, and other top-notch dark thrillers. If you enjoy those and don't need everything spelled out for you, I can't recommend it enough.
Although it maybe isn't quite as great as them, Hold the Dark absolutely should be talked about in the same category as Silence of the Lambs, Se7en, Zodiac, and other top-notch dark thrillers. If you enjoy those and don't need everything spelled out for you, I can't recommend it enough.
The film is a slow burn, and doesn't entirely work at that pace. There's not enough going on to sustain it. The characters aren't very interesting, there's no real tension or suspense, the situations aren't compelling, and the acting is fairly uninteresting. Kristen Stewart has generally done a great job getting past the poor performance she gave in the Twilight series, but here, she seems to fall back on some bad habits. Easily the worst post-Twilight performance I've seen from her.
One of its biggest mistakes is reveling in the disgusting. From the first moments, we are shown very disgusting images on a regular basis - clogged toilets, bruised injection sites, and things that would be spoiler-y to say. A gross-out comedy would've played these for laughs; something like The Paperboy would use these to create an overall aesthetic... this movie just throws them out there and does nothing with them.
That said, most of the film is... okay. It's certainly not bad. Not until the ending, anyway. The last five or so minutes take a genre turn that not only doesn't fit the story, but is completely unnecessary in terms of what's happening. It would be like watching a Will Ferrell movie only to find that the last five minutes turn into torture porn. This could work if it added to the experience or to the story; but instead it takes away from both.
A great ending could've elevated the movie; a standard ending would've been about a 5/10. The terrible ending brings it down to 3/10. Not a complete waste of time, but not really worth the time either.
One of its biggest mistakes is reveling in the disgusting. From the first moments, we are shown very disgusting images on a regular basis - clogged toilets, bruised injection sites, and things that would be spoiler-y to say. A gross-out comedy would've played these for laughs; something like The Paperboy would use these to create an overall aesthetic... this movie just throws them out there and does nothing with them.
That said, most of the film is... okay. It's certainly not bad. Not until the ending, anyway. The last five or so minutes take a genre turn that not only doesn't fit the story, but is completely unnecessary in terms of what's happening. It would be like watching a Will Ferrell movie only to find that the last five minutes turn into torture porn. This could work if it added to the experience or to the story; but instead it takes away from both.
A great ending could've elevated the movie; a standard ending would've been about a 5/10. The terrible ending brings it down to 3/10. Not a complete waste of time, but not really worth the time either.