Trap

I thought that the setting of the movie was interesting, and it had some exciting moments. One of the bigger side roles is played by the directors niece I belive. She had so much screen time and those parts were mostly not great. She is a great singer, but the acting needs improvement.

The cast is otherwise great, I just hope other side characters would have gotten more screen time.

Ofcourse the movie included alot of fun and interesting twists, but it leaves you wanting something more.

The movie could have been alot better without a clear try to launch a relatives career. Overall medium interesting watch.

I'm a sucker for M. Night and being a fan can be challenging but I'll always give him a shot. This was bad. Not in a campy way but this hurt to watch. Josh Hartnett worked with what he had but this so bad. It went nowhere. A sad nepotism project at best sad to say the music was laughable as was the acting. The songs were endless and so was the build up (?) Wait for it to stream and then ignore it. I had second hand embarrassment watching the cringe inducing concert felt like I was trapped not in a good way. The writing was juvenile and lazy. People actually started laughing in the movie theater. This had a Hallmark network quality to it and that's an insult to them. The concept had potential but it felt like AI wrote this. M. Night had to have put his own money up to get this greenlit. This was just absurd.

A watchable movie, but the director ventures into too many different directions. The third act feels very disconnected from the rest of the film, culminating in a never-ending finale with bland characters that are poorly developed.

The story veered into many different directions, making it feel unfocused. I did not enjoy the poor acting, except for Josh Harriett, who was the only good part of the movie.

The third act was particularly undetermined and disjointed. Surprisingly, the best part of the movie was during the film credits.

Even Josh Harnett's performance, the sole highlight, couldn't save the film from its shortcomings.

Remember - trailers are a separate work of art. We're being sold something that makes money, not something we'll end up seeing in the movie. Trap is a perfect example of this case. Presented as a suspenseful thriller about a game of cat and mouse, the movie turns out to be a completely featureless attempt to play on the audience's expectations. There is no intrigue, no suspense, for everything is read ahead. You are waiting to be surprised. Waiting, and waiting ... and waiting. Nothing happens. Everyone is moving, song keep coming, and yet ... no impact at all, no stakes, no WOW moments.

You just can't believe how dull the story is, which is holded solely on Josh's charisma. He is an extremely good in this movie, some of the acting choices are brilliant. Without him, it would be impossible to watch this nonsense. In the end, all the action leads nowhere - the finale is devoid of conclusions, twists or drama. There is literally no ending! It's as if the entire hour and a half went nowhere. One of the major disappointments of the year.

I get it. Someone will disagree with my take. But trust me, I wanted to be excited. Was waiting for this movie with some excitement, went to see it Opening Night. Extremely disappointed. Oh, one more thing - STOP portraying special forces like they are some incompetent children with no logic. Sometimes they do make mistakes, but Jesus, they are super dumb in first half of the movie, it's almost pure comedy.

The start of the movie was really promising. The plotline was also really promising. I don't understand how is this movie a horror movie actually, because it seems more like a psychological thriller/crime to me. From a director who did a masterpiece like "sixth sense" I was really expecting something else. In fact, "sixth sense" seems more logical to me. The movie is filled with a lot of plot holes and illogical scenes. I don't understand why. It looks like the director wanted to push something more personal in the movie and in the meantime he forgot about the actual movie's plot and purpose. As I said, it started off as very promising but the plot developed in such a wrong way for a movie that should revolve around logical and realistic things. Maybe the director should have studied about this matter more so maybe he would escape all of those plot holes. Josh Harnett is sexier than ever.