The one thing the emphasize on is lady raven having asthma they zoom in on her needing her pump so I’m like ok this is going to come back up and literally nothing lmfao
Could be wrong, but I presume the point of this was to show his OCD. He picks up on every little detail while trying to balance them to use it as leverage out of his situation.
I got torn apart on another review for having this opinion lol 😂 I just wanted to sink my teeth into a gripping thriller and this disappointed. I wanted to love it so much😢
I'm beginning the review but fun fact, as a dude I'm not sure he noticed: There's a scene where she has a lot of closeup and I really noticed her eyebrows because they're kinda "funny" like they're just a straight line, no curve. Very cartoon esque. 3 seconds later they switch location and they're totally different shaped, for the rest of the movie. Clearly shot on different days and the makeup artists didn't speak. Continuity, what is that?
The Butcher is shirtless when he's tasered inside the house. Then he's got his shirt on *after they've cuffed him,* which means they had to go to the kitchen, grab his shirt, and put it on before cuffing him. Thousands of shirtless men are arrested yearly without a care to put their shirt on before arresting. But this man is special. Why did they put his shirt on? The only explanation is that the writers needed somewhere to hide the bike spoke. Fantastic writing. Bravo.
the movie is garbage like typical Shyamalan, the whole premise of making a concert to find a killer because they knew that he was gonna be there but dont know who he is omgg
Dude! Let alone the cuff IN FRONT with super long cuff chains so he can do stiff with his hands as if there were no cuffs at all!!!!!! Like, get a tool. Like, hug his daughter whom they would let NO WHERE NEAR him as he might use her as a hostage.... but they do!!!!!
@@Jade16.61 He was special, he only got a taser after assaulting/killing an officer and was allowed a minute to pick up a bike and hug his daughter. lol
There was an interview before the movie where she and M. Said they spent MONTHS planning the concert. And I was like "and yet you guys couldn't figure out how to. I don't know. Make her move around the stage?" She stays center middle stage 98% of the movie.
The dumbest moment is three of them leaving the building, going through the hallway full of police, why doesn’t the lady scream out for help 😅 he will be arrested in a second. This scene really really pissed me off in the theater
because the police doesnt really had info about the apearance of the killer in the first place, they only had some info about the killer being in the stadium
I agree with everything you said! This movie was horrible! Terrible writing with implausible and nonsensical interactions between the protagonist and other characters! The merch guy just revealing everything to him just because he gave away a T-shirt, the merch guy went the rest of the day without realizing his I.D. badge was stolen by Cooper, etc.
I mean I haven’t seen it But movies are works of fiction So I don’t think it’s necessary that every character interaction happens the exact same way it most likely would happen in real life
@@WdawgSmith He told everything after prefacing that he's not supposed to tell anything or he's get fired. Then also told the codeword cause you know, having dozens of people in in a secret is smart. Also, he's the kind of guy that doesn't wear his key card.
The wife knows that her husband is the butcher and she lets her daughter go to the concert with him with an FBI agent surrounding it. But she could’ve called them to come to her house. Great writing M. Night Shyamalan 😂😂😂
he used to be pretentious and snooty with this element of his writing before, but at least now, it feels he is aware that he is making B movie schlock fests
The wife thought he was having an afffair or something else illegal, so decided to frame him as the butcher so the police would investigate him for her.
You are using a premise that you made up, which the film does not promote, in order to refute it yourself) The film did not claim that Cooper is an elusive killer. Cooper is not an elusive serial killer, he is very lucky that he was not caught, there is no mistake that he could forget to close the doors and windows)
@@strikebreakings Based off the context of the movie, you know he's elusive. I'm sorry no one had dialogue where they told you, "This guy is elusive!" The fact that they had to set up a trap at a giant concert with every FBI and SWAT member around surrounding the entire concert should've helped you infer that.
The movie directly addresses this, there's a scene where he says "I never thought of the house that way, I never let the two worlds meet", he was panicking and didn't think of it. Being meticulous and elusive doesn't mean being omnipotent
the movie was like a video game where everyone was an NPC.... and Cooper just has to interact with them..... hey I need to go back stage.... NPC ok let me take you back stage.... Cooper hey I need to get in the kitchen..... NPC ok let me show you to the kitchen.
They don't know that /the killer/ has a tattoo, they know that a man seen near the scene of the crime, one of many men, whom they describe relatively well, has a tattoo.
A major issue with this film is that the writers really want us to believe that Cooper is this intelligent, sly villain who can outsmart anyone, but they didn’t know how to write ‘setups & payoffs’ nor create key logic points, so they just made everyone else extremely stupid in comparison. I feel like if Cooper was supposed to be this smart character who thinks he’s outsmarting all the police and staff, the police should have been smarter and have ALREADY known that he would go there and try to escape, because the police also know he’s smart. The ‘trap’ should not have been the arena. The REAL trap should have been Cooper’s own territory where he commits crimes. The trap is making Cooper believe he outsmarted the police when, actually, everything was a plan to lure The Butcher out. The code that Jamie, the vendor, gave him should have been a FAKE CODE that only The Butcher would try to use. They should have known that The Butcher would try to exit backstage. I think once they got there, they should’ve given them both “merch wristbands” to subtly check his wrist for the tattoo. Jody’s mother should have been important as well. When Cooper stole Jamie’s ID badge, Cooper should have ran into someone who I’ll call “Customer”. Customer would have asked Cooper for help or directions, and Cooper, posing as a staff member would give them misleading directions. THEN, when Riley is brought on stage with Little Raven, Riley should have dragged Cooper onstage to dance with her. In the crowd, Customer would be see Cooper onstage and go, “That’s unfair. She only got selected because her dad works here”. Then to Customer’s left is Jody’s mom who KNOWS that Cooper doesn’t work there at all. She’ll obviously ask questions to confirm. Then, she grows suspicious. That would’ve been better than the random wife addition towards the end
The real artistic twist was that the Dad was a socially awkward guy who put his daughter first in a movie called Trap. In reality the socially awkward director M Night trapped (essentially clickbaited) us the audience into making us watch his daughter sing act and dance as a way to promote her career. The parallels are genius.
Another thing genius was to find back Hayley Mills form the original Parent Trap over 60 years ago to lead the FBI team and even used a taser gun. The sight of her alone was scary.
Oh but when I throw a child down the stairs at the Eras tour, I get arrested and banned from all future Taylor Swift shows, yet Josh Hartnett does it to a women and gets promoted to director of the FBI or something??? Is it an age thing??
You too? Wtf! Every damn time I toss a kid out an elevator or over the rails of a ship, I get the nastiest looks (you wouldn't believe how rude ppl can be). I think ppl just hate ppl like us because they're jealous. 😆
Who has a receipt for concert tickets? Also throngs of people walking around the arena while the concert is on. Lady Raven leaves alone. No security? Assistant?
I said the same thing even though I liked the silly camp of the movie. With just a little digging by the police they should've been able to to figure out what seats the guy has. Right?
Why didn't the FBI just wait for them at their house when they get home? Arresting him during the concert full of people raises up all of sorts of dumb problems.
Because they didnt know who he was and where he lived, just that he'd be there. But yeh trying to vet thousands of men on their way out of an arena is dumb as hell
@@CosmosesJones the whole receipt thing was so dumb. Which receipt doesn't say anything on who the buyer was. There would be time stamps, maybe type of payment or something on it which the FBI could have easily used to track it back to Cooper
@rvnx_potatoe9758 true. There i would give it the benefit of the doubt though and suspend my disbelief cause maybe the torn part just shows the event and the part with any personal info or real leads would have been the part the wife kept. Still it is indeed a dumbfuck way to go about it cause if you suspect your husband to be a serial killer why not just call in an anonymous tip, why put him in a sistuation where he may feel trapped and has not only your daughter but thousands of other people around him he can harm. Such a dumb movie. It had so much potential but it was just so so dumb
How do you handcuff a serial killer who has proven to be a Houdini with the cuffs in front and put him in the back of a truck alone with no eyes on him? Wtf? This was the most unbelievable part of the movie.
The emotional moment with the bike is what got me. All the officers just hanging around while he's messing around with shit in his yard mid-arrest... aside from the killer's weird stealth magic tricks, everybody in this movie was insanely incompetent
AT LAST!...A no holds barred review that nails this lobotomized film ....obviously you're not on the payroll like other reviewers who loved it...I SALUTE YOU.
Chris Stuckman is absolutely useless, Ryan from Screen Crush and whatshisface from Rockstars are boot lickers as well. It's shameful how easily those 3 were bought. Cheaply, too.
I didn’t pay and still want my money back!! Hahaha I want to get paid for waisting almost 2 hours of my life. 😅😅😅😅. I went to see Bad Boys 4 and snuck in to see the 9:50 show. So glad I didn’t pay 😬😬😬😒😒😒
The killer made a big assumptuon that Lady Raven would care about a random guy. She could turn up not to care and scream for help. Also , it was stupid she let him.in to her dressing room under the pretext of talking about his daughter.
The twist where Josh Hartnett breaks the 4th wall in the final scene, looks at the camera, and says: "It's Trappin' Time.", before he starts trapping people left and right, has been THE movie experience of the century. Bravo M. Night! Absolute cinema.
@@AdamDoesMovies great job as always,.. the part that irked me the most and seems to ruin the ENTIRE FOUNDATIONAL PLOT of the movie is that the police really had no idea who they were even looking for , couldnt he have so easily walked out of there with his daughter at any time? As soon as he grabbed the police radio and heard the chatter that they were looking for a bunch of random possible suspects, his mind should have rested easy that they had no clue who they were actually looking for.. yes even with the wrist tattoo identified simply as a 'person of possible interest' of many suspicious.... there was no actual evidence they could point to in a body search or interview to link him to the crimes (the receipt only manifested that he would likely be in attendance it wouldnt identify who he was and even that is weak since a receipt at that house wouldnt prove he was going to actually be there! there are a million possible reasons for that receipt being there! )... so the real risk for him it seemed then was not in leaving the arena that day , but perhaps in 'EVENTUALLY' getting caught in the days or weeks to follow, as they were narrowing in on him, he being on video as one of the 3000 male possibilities...
@@DDD11239 sure, but my point in bringing that up was not really about detainment at the site, but more that they were narrowing down from an infinite universe of suspects down to 3k or less.. and maybe they could eventually close in on him even further in the days or weeks to come..
truly one of the worst movies i have ever seen, and i'm having a hard time not feeling extremely concerned whenever i read a review that raves about it. it's very worrisome!!! i literally laughed out loud when the guy at the t-shirt stand started talking about how much he liked the dad and daughters family values. it was the most AI-generated sounding dialogue i have EVER heard. how do movies like this get greenlit?!?!
They don't get greenlit, he funds them himself that's why lmao. But I agree everytime I see an M Night movie it's like my new most hated movie lmao. Last that it was old which I really hated
The whole script was so odd Lol. This surely wasn't written by an adult or a human for that matter. Film full of NPCs. It was like watching a weird episode of Scooby Doo. 😂
Given some of the stuff he’s able to do, he probably could have just left the concert the way the regular guests do and make it past the mandatory police screening without them figuring out that it’s him.
Also in the swag bags they had temporary tattoos. Since they were looking for a guy with a certain tattoo, I thought for sure they were going to use the one to obscure the other.
She is Haily Mills. Her claim to fame as being in the original film version of The Parent Trap. I think that was supposed to be an inside joke to the audience. She's wasted. Less concert footage and a bit more about this FBI profiler would have helped out this movie a bit.
at some point they would have noticed some one threw bottles in the fryer..roll the cameras back to see who turned up the fryer and threw the bottles in!! search over! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 the place had cameras, fbi, police all thru it!
And she stood there and looked at the bottles. Like...I wonder what's going to happen....maybe I should run and tell my fellow kitchen staff to get down? No, I'm going to stand in front of the fryer and stare at it until it explodes in my face.
There's no way he could have walked pass and in front of them concert pple and employees not to be seen doing it is why they did show how he actually did it without being seen
I couldn’t believe how fucking amateur this movie was. He must have written this over the weekend. The quality of it is the same as an old 90’s made for TV movie of the week.
What was the point of finding out that she had asthma? They lingered for so long on her taking a puff of her inhaler, but then like so many other things nothing really materialized of that moment.
Another pointless decoy moment. Same thing when the male duet singer romantically winks and gestures at the killer like he wants him to make a move on him. I thought that was going to be his way to sneak out, but it just happened and was over, never mentioned again. I wonder how much “scrapbooking” was employed on this film. The whole ending sequence seems poorly thought out and tacked on.
For me it explained why she needs 15+ minutes to do a set change and catch her breath and just allowed for people to flood the stadium hallways in the meantime
It shows the killer instinctive hatred for her because she shows her emotions...and her weaknesses, unlike him. And then he looks at her angry, like he's going to use his psychic powers on her ...and an assistant falls instead of her, showing she's immune to Cooper's powers. This scene is the only one where we can see him use psychokinesis to hurt someone. The rest of the scenes we just see his hypnosis powers, and his ability to remain unseen by "crippling" other people's minds. I love superhero movies, and it is one (more of a supervillain movie, actually) 😉
Would've loved to have seen him sneakily get her inhaler, then the drama of locking herself in the bathroom triggering a huge asthma attack, causing her to panic because she can't find her inhaler and she's now only got a really small window of time to make a decision. But, nope, just let that hang yet it could have had so much potential.
Thank you for bringing up the “I release you” or whatever Raven says. I was so perturbed that they clearly spotlighted her for that moment and pulled a Chekov’s Gun with it.
I really really really thought i predicted the ending whilst watching the movie - I thought there was something deeper with the daughter and her rough relationships, and M Night spent a minute focusing on Lady Raven puffing on an inhaler. Additionally carbon monoxide was brought up twice, and I thought he was gonna use Hitchcock rules of three for foreshadowing… Anyways, I though this was gonna happen in the scene at the house: At the point of the piano phone switch situation, we were gonna find out that Lady Raven calls the police to inform them cooler is the butcher using Rylies phone (to do it as slyly as possible, so she doesn’t use her own phone) Then puts phone down and sees that Rylie has the same “evil camera app” on her phone along with all sorts of other evidence- she’s the true killer! *Twist background: Rylie is a troubled kid, bad relationship with friends, takes out anger in strangers. Cooper facilitates and protects her.* Then somehow to wrap things up Lady raven has a puff of her inhaler (now modified with carbon monoxide) so that she dies without telling anyone about rylies dark secret. Film ends with Cooper locked up, Raven dead, and Rylie free. Rylie apologises to her dad for getting him into this situation (in front of the police - but vague enough to not raise eyebrows) and somehow he turns on his flash light on his phone to show he forgives her.
Dumbest thing is that the FBI already knows who he is,but not one single agent,officer, etc has been shown a picture to know who to look for. Plus,what's the deal with J.Edgar Hoover's Mom,oldest,still working major crimes.
The dumbest thing is actually the fact it hinged on a total unreality. She planted the torn receipt in the house and then an anonymous tip. Why would the FBI take such a leap of faith on an absolute needle in a haystack situation? Why would there be a physical receipt for a show of that size when most ticket companies are now completely electronic especially arena venues? Aside from this, they would likely shift through the subjects at the entry point before the show in which case this is a totally different format of movie. Probably a chase film. We don't even get an indication that the authorities even know anything definitive about the suspect aside from the fact he MIGHT be going to the show. They were hoping the killer would give himself up upon interrogation. The whole thing was a giant fishing expedition.
Would’ve been cool if the wife was in on it as well. Thought that was going to happen. But yeah, silly writing. But the movie is dumb enough to keep you watching. Die Hard but with Norman Bates.
Honestly my favorite twist would have been that he was being framed and being manipulated by the real killer who is threatening to kill his family or other people at the concert. Another twist could have been that the wife planted the tip because she was the real killer and Cooper's plan is to escape and save his son without alerting the authorities.
I agree with you!! I was feeling gaslight at first when I saw everyone in love with it. I was expecting blood and guts. The concept is cute but I needed more horror movie action!!
Attention aspiring screenwriters! I know it can be frustrating trying to convince people with money to fund your film project. But "Trap" is what happens when you are rich enough finance your own movies with no one to tell you to do a re-write. Sometimes it's good to have a wall of separation between concept and final product.
the "i release you" line was no foreshadowing catchphrase, sir. it was an actual warn and the last couple of chances handed you to get up and walk out of the trap lmao
IT WAS SO BAAAADDDDD! It's like a 5th grader wrote this script. I agree with everything in your review. So many absurd and convenient scenes. This movie was THE WORST!
yeah wtf was that? the "good boy" speech and him calling her mom, absolutely bizarre, I felt like I must've missed some serious context but I don't think there was any
"Technology does not like water" Especially when M. Night has made SEVERAL movies where WATER is the "weakness". Split/Glass, Signs, Old (if you count the beach)
i went pretty blind into this, only knowing cast and crew and very aware of shyamalan rocky trackrecord of late. im in total shock there are people out there calling it a master piece. if your main criteria for masterpiece is that is has to make absolutely no sense at all, yeah then this movie has no equal. for anyone using a brain, it will just hurt. i walked out pissed off out of the theatre
This isn't a spoiler, anyone that watched the trailer saw the entire movie... since there are no kills only injuries and both of those are shown in the trailer. Trap is the equivalent of a long episode of Nickelodeon's Goosebumps... and even then, at least that series had a more cohesive plot for each episode. There is no twist at the end... they ran out of songs and they needed to ed the movie and the villain was defeated by a bathroom door he couldn't break and a live streaming audience that pulled the biggest CSI episode in 40 secs.
can anyone explain how the wife was suspicious it was him? and plus if she thought it was just an affair why would she report that to the cops for the butcherer? makes no sense. plus if they had his identity as a potential suspect it makes sense to just interview and question him rather than catch him and ‘potential other suspects who happen to also be at the concert and they just happen to know too’
Ok Adam I think youve helped me figure stuff out. See, usually one sees a movie because of a premise, right? The film trailer is was meant to introduce the premise. Intrigue us. The film is meant to be a premise, plus everything else that fills in the details. To see what they would do with a premise. Plus the filmmaker used to use their instincts, style, expectations, etc to develop something. An entertaining experience at best. An entertaining spectacle at worst. But now they know they need only the premise. Many films now add nothing to a bare premise. It will get many people to watch. If not in the physical building where movies are projected, then at home because the physical building is not a great place to be most times. Yet, there has to be an ending to the movie. Everything in between has been rendered insignificant. Premise, then some kind of ending. That is what many movies have become.
My favourite part was when Lady Raven cuts off the flesh on her arm & reveals that she’s The Ravenator model T-800 & she will not stop until her mission is complete.
Just saw this today. I had to kill 3 hours and the showtime lined up. What i loved: 1. The reclining leather seat in the empty theater. 2. Josh Hartnett's performance. Seriously i thought he did good. He went from dad of the year to killer. Id watch him act again. What i didnt like: 1. Everything else. Mostly the unbelievable plot. She just WALKED to the limo with the killer and.......nevermind. Just nevermind. I cant. Literally the ENTIRE plot bothered me. It wasnt great and i saw it in the best possible theater experience. Only better experience is back in the day when you had one option during a flight. This was almost that. Shmeh. Whole thing was shmeh. 'That was a lot of information for a security guard to have' perfectly summed up the movie.
He is a magician. I thought he dug a hole underneath the limo to get away…. How did he throw the stuff into the fryer in the kitchen. At one point, I expect him to approach his wife and says “I’m Batman”
his wife was smart enough to think it was him, call in an anonymous tip instead of getting her children FAR away from him. the police letting him hold that bike in that end was foolish. they went through all this trouble to catch him only for him to get treated like a regular dad. THOUSANDS of people saw him pounding on the bathroom door (shining reference) on her instagram live. also that singer was goofball for not saying Cooper's fckin name!!
Ya know what would be an interesting twist for the end? The reason Lady Raven wanted to go into is because she is also a serial killer and she has other men come into the house and overpowers the family and locks them in the basement with the guy already there and releases the gas before leaving.
The movie just makes no sense why even set up his daughter as having issues with her friends? Imagine if you were kidnapped and ariana grande calls you and helps you escape then you hug her.the bit I laughed at the most was when just a big unsupervised hole opens in the middle of the isle and stays that way for 5 minutes.this film is wack.
Totally agreed! We are trapped by this movie for 1hr 45 mins... lousy storytelling.. kind of showing off his daughter's music.. lame excuse to showcase her music.
Watched this today and HATED all the plot holes. Came to YT to see what everyone else thought. Found your video and now I'm no longer sad that I wasted €12 on it, because this was 21 minutes of pure comedy! Thank you sir!
Nothing was worst than the acting. M nights daughter was horrible as an actor. Especially the guy at the stand that gave the killer all the info. I hated him.
As a fan of female pop singers, I would have expected Adam to "rave" about the magnificent Saleka Shymalyan. In all seriousness, I like female pop singers too and I couldn't even recall a single song by the time I left the theater.
The only trap was the trailer making us think it was good. We were all trapped into seeing a 2 hour music video that was made for the lifetime network. Such a terrible film, did the entire budget go to Josh and had his children write the dialogue??? It made me angry it was so bad, I want my money back 🚮
The daughter was given a gift bag from the concert organizer. She says "Dad there is so much in this bag... there are tattoos, etc". I thought for sure he was going to take one of the tattoos and use it to cover the rabbit tattoo on his wrist to get out of the building. NO... Nope! Also, Raven was locked in the house's bathroom for a long time. She could have just climbed out the window, she was on the first floor!
Hey, I'm a mom! I took my 14 yr old son to see Crap on Thurs. Worst movie ever. Don't forget the part where t-shirt guy not only invited the strange man into the backroom alone with him during a lockdown, but was also a mega "Butcher" fanatic, and handed the stranger his boxcutter to hold.
Fantastic review. Very funny. Thanks Adam. M.Night films always start with a lot of potential so it’s a real waste of opportunity to have these movies nose-dive into the mountain side in every instance. With that said, I now release you from this movie.
So the Stadium and Artist allows the FBI and Police to lure a SERIAL KILLER into a concert with 20,000 teen girls and surround it with SWAT, armed with assault rifles?????? IMPOSSIBLE The film totally lost me there
I just... how did he get out of that limo? That man is 6'3. There's no way he's changing out of swat gear in the driver's seat, speaking from experience. And then like... the car was surrounded on all sides. Body to body. He just managed to open the door, slip out, close the door, and disappear into the shadows with not one person noticing??? Just like how apparently no one noticed him pushing a lady down the stairs? And not one cop, despite having 10 of them surrounding him at every angle, noticed he somehow managed to pull a big piece of metal off a bike and shove it down his sleeve? Listen I'm all for suspending reality in film but c'mon lol.
About the beef that Riley had with her classmates: it's not important what happened between them, but it's a detail that shows what an involved dad Cooper is. It's not about Riley, it's about his character. The "forgiveness" scene at the concert is also about Cooper. He does not participate in the ritual whereas virtually everyone else does.
I was so mad when he handcuffed her inside the limo and instead of using her STILETTO SHOES to break the glass, or at least bang on the window and make noise with soooo many people around, she tried her hardest to put down the window when it could've been locked 😐
For me the concert was the best part and Lady Raven was a better performer than actor. LOL It was awkward to watch all of those stupid interactions between everyone and Cooper! Plus the camera angle when he would talk with anyone it was almost like he didn't film with them in the same room and he was looking down at them. I can understand that but it was just an weird exchange and I agree the other girl's mom was annoying. I was so excited for this movie but its not great! The movie played off as AI wrote and directed it with very little understanding of human interactions.
I had an impression that this tshirt guy knew Cooper so that’s why he was so nice to him? I’m not sure but I think the tshirt guy called him Cooper without him introducing himself first?
I saw the whole "I release you" moment way differently. in the scene, Lady Raven says something like "I want you to think of someone who's hurt you, and try to forgive them and say I release you. If you can do that, turn on the light on your phone" Riley does, cause she had that whole big thing with Jodie, the girl who hurt her. Almost literally everyone puts on the light on their phone. Except Cooper. and looking back, we know he was abused by his mother. So he doesn't try to forgive her, and all of that is somewhat connected to how he is as a murderer. That's what that whole moment was. That was my biggest problem with the movie, that they didn't reveal more about his background and how that connects to him as a killer cause in his case it absolutely does.
That was my issue with the movie, too. No backstory, or flashbacks. Character development? How did he get here? Who were his other victims? He wasn't frightening....not really. All we really got was a monetarily frugal dad with OCD.
And also "I release you" : you can take it metaphorically, and he refuses to forgive his mother... Or literally, he doesn't want to release his victim.
The one thing the emphasize on is lady raven having asthma they zoom in on her needing her pump so I’m like ok this is going to come back up and literally nothing lmfao
Righttttt
Or when they showed him throwing his gum away into a bottle
That's right! She should've had an attack or something.
Could be wrong, but I presume the point of this was to show his OCD. He picks up on every little detail while trying to balance them to use it as leverage out of his situation.
Yeah, it's odd to emphasize Lady Raven having asthma if it's not gonna become an important plot point later on.
"Promotional movie for his daughter" pretty much sums up the movie
I was thinking that.
@@54MDigital_Media I knew this deserved multiple watches. People only focus on the surface level 🙄
@54MDigital_Media even with all the easter eggs, it still doesn't make it a better movie
I got torn apart on another review for having this opinion lol 😂 I just wanted to sink my teeth into a gripping thriller and this disappointed. I wanted to love it so much😢
I'm beginning the review but fun fact, as a dude I'm not sure he noticed:
There's a scene where she has a lot of closeup and I really noticed her eyebrows because they're kinda "funny" like they're just a straight line, no curve. Very cartoon esque.
3 seconds later they switch location and they're totally different shaped, for the rest of the movie.
Clearly shot on different days and the makeup artists didn't speak.
Continuity, what is that?
The Butcher is shirtless when he's tasered inside the house. Then he's got his shirt on *after they've cuffed him,* which means they had to go to the kitchen, grab his shirt, and put it on before cuffing him. Thousands of shirtless men are arrested yearly without a care to put their shirt on before arresting. But this man is special.
Why did they put his shirt on? The only explanation is that the writers needed somewhere to hide the bike spoke.
Fantastic writing. Bravo.
LMAO for real. He must be somewhat “special”.😂
the movie is garbage like typical Shyamalan, the whole premise of making a concert to find a killer because they knew that he was gonna be there but dont know who he is omgg
Dude! Let alone the cuff IN FRONT with super long cuff chains so he can do stiff with his hands as if there were no cuffs at all!!!!!! Like, get a tool. Like, hug his daughter whom they would let NO WHERE NEAR him as he might use her as a hostage.... but they do!!!!!
@@Jade16.61 He was special, he only got a taser after assaulting/killing an officer and was allowed a minute to pick up a bike and hug his daughter. lol
A button up at that... fuckin crap ass movie..🤮
Lady Raven is supposed to be Taylor Swift level but has ZERO security and goes into some rando’s house alone?!? err OK. 🤣
Right like what the hell
To be fair, security is optional. She's not The President. Too bad most real-life fans worship to the point of surrounding and possibly assaulting.
I'd be okay with that if they had a van called "The Swiftery Machine"
There was an interview before the movie where she and M. Said they spent MONTHS planning the concert.
And I was like "and yet you guys couldn't figure out how to. I don't know. Make her move around the stage?" She stays center middle stage 98% of the movie.
Taylor Swift would’ve flew
The dumbest moment is three of them leaving the building, going through the hallway full of police, why doesn’t the lady scream out for help 😅 he will be arrested in a second. This scene really really pissed me off in the theater
Yeah, and he wouldnt have time to reach his phone
She could just be playing a dumb teen.
I was thinking that too!
because the police doesnt really had info about the apearance of the killer in the first place, they only had some info about the killer being in the stadium
@@user-ku8yi5to4f but they had particular info of the tattoo
I agree with everything you said! This movie was horrible! Terrible writing with implausible and nonsensical interactions between the protagonist and other characters! The merch guy just revealing everything to him just because he gave away a T-shirt, the merch guy went the rest of the day without realizing his I.D. badge was stolen by Cooper, etc.
@@ricardotrevil3603 exactly, the merch guy gave it all away to easy, while Cooper fit the killer profile.
I mean I haven’t seen it But movies are works of fiction So I don’t think it’s necessary that every character interaction happens the exact same way it most likely would happen in real life
@@WdawgSmiththanks for the valuable insight person who hasn’t seen it
Oh by the way, here's the secret codeword.
@@WdawgSmith He told everything after prefacing that he's not supposed to tell anything or he's get fired. Then also told the codeword cause you know, having dozens of people in in a secret is smart. Also, he's the kind of guy that doesn't wear his key card.
The movie only was made to promote her daughter. I'm done paying for his movies.
I would have enjoyed the movie a lot more if M Night had the balls to just title the movie NepoTrap
@@bruh_hahaha😂😂
I still enjoy them, and have a DVD collection (all except the one that doesn't exist, in Ba Sing Se)
And her acting sucks
I haven't paid for a movie of his since Unbreakable. Everything he does sucks.
I thought the twist was gonna be his daughter is the killer, and he has been covering up her murders
Or he was training her to be like him.
@@anubusx Or the Raven was the serial killer
@@boskostoybox
That would be interesting
Or the wife was a killer also !
I thought the hostage was the killer and Cooper was the hero.
The real Trap was getting us to sit through this movie. 🍿
😂😂😂
hahahaa
@@PeruvianClaudiaNV seriously
Good one 😂
I walked out earlier. Never have I done that. Thanks for the end lol.
When everyone was so hyped for this movie I just thought to myself "how the hell do you people keep falling for this"
😂😂😂
The wife knows that her husband is the butcher and she lets her daughter go to the concert with him with an FBI agent surrounding it. But she could’ve called them to come to her house. Great writing M. Night Shyamalan 😂😂😂
it was sooo stupid,the wife doing some many complications
he used to be pretentious and snooty with this element of his writing before, but at least now, it feels he is aware that he is making B movie schlock fests
The wife thought he was having an afffair or something else illegal, so decided to frame him as the butcher so the police would investigate him for her.
@@XenithShadow And….?
The logic in this film is horrible. It was entertaining enough though
Let’s not forget this supposedly elusive serial killer who doesn’t think to lock windows or doors.
You are using a premise that you made up, which the film does not promote, in order to refute it yourself) The film did not claim that Cooper is an elusive killer. Cooper is not an elusive serial killer, he is very lucky that he was not caught, there is no mistake that he could forget to close the doors and windows)
@@strikebreakings Based off the context of the movie, you know he's elusive. I'm sorry no one had dialogue where they told you, "This guy is elusive!" The fact that they had to set up a trap at a giant concert with every FBI and SWAT member around surrounding the entire concert should've helped you infer that.
@@strikebreakingsNo, he's not elusive, he's meticulous. except when he decided to not lock the limo doors or windows.
@@Tha_TriggaThat's the point, how could he forgot to lock the doors and windows if he's so meticulous??
The movie directly addresses this, there's a scene where he says "I never thought of the house that way, I never let the two worlds meet", he was panicking and didn't think of it. Being meticulous and elusive doesn't mean being omnipotent
Didn't his wife drug him, so why didn't pass out but had the strength to fight off 3 tasers? Was he Jason?
you'd be surprised by how some people can really tolerate tasers especially when drugged. Adrenaline could be very powerful.
the movie was like a video game where everyone was an NPC.... and Cooper just has to interact with them..... hey I need to go back stage.... NPC ok let me take you back stage.... Cooper hey I need to get in the kitchen..... NPC ok let me show you to the kitchen.
I’m the main character
Also they can’t identify what the guy looks like but they know his quarter sized tattoo
They don't know that /the killer/ has a tattoo, they know that a man seen near the scene of the crime, one of many men, whom they describe relatively well, has a tattoo.
@@ghostel9253 exactly
A huuuge pop start with absolutely NO SECURITY!!! Driver lets her walk INTO a random house BY HERSELF!!! WHAT???!!!
A major issue with this film is that the writers really want us to believe that Cooper is this intelligent, sly villain who can outsmart anyone, but they didn’t know how to write ‘setups & payoffs’ nor create key logic points, so they just made everyone else extremely stupid in comparison.
I feel like if Cooper was supposed to be this smart character who thinks he’s outsmarting all the police and staff, the police should have been smarter and have ALREADY known that he would go there and try to escape, because the police also know he’s smart.
The ‘trap’ should not have been the arena. The REAL trap should have been Cooper’s own territory where he commits crimes. The trap is making Cooper believe he outsmarted the police when, actually, everything was a plan to lure The Butcher out. The code that Jamie, the vendor, gave him should have been a FAKE CODE that only The Butcher would try to use. They should have known that The Butcher would try to exit backstage. I think once they got there, they should’ve given them both “merch wristbands” to subtly check his wrist for the tattoo.
Jody’s mother should have been important as well. When Cooper stole Jamie’s ID badge, Cooper should have ran into someone who I’ll call “Customer”. Customer would have asked Cooper for help or directions, and Cooper, posing as a staff member would give them misleading directions. THEN, when Riley is brought on stage with Little Raven, Riley should have dragged Cooper onstage to dance with her. In the crowd, Customer would be see Cooper onstage and go, “That’s unfair. She only got selected because her dad works here”. Then to Customer’s left is Jody’s mom who KNOWS that Cooper doesn’t work there at all. She’ll obviously ask questions to confirm. Then, she grows suspicious. That would’ve been better than the random wife addition towards the end
bruh they should’ve had you write the movie bc u ate with this ngl
These are all good points. Iirc the fbi lady did mention having planned for him to try to escape, but I think your idea may have been more interesting
Crispy writing 👏
Please study this in college! You have a talent of fixing scripts
The real artistic twist was that the Dad was a socially awkward guy who put his daughter first in a movie called Trap. In reality the socially awkward director M Night trapped (essentially clickbaited) us the audience into making us watch his daughter sing act and dance as a way to promote her career. The parallels are genius.
that M Night cameo made me cackle more than kid cudi's TEMU wig
Another thing genius was to find back Hayley Mills form the original Parent Trap over 60 years ago to lead the FBI team and even used a taser gun. The sight of her alone was scary.
Oh but when I throw a child down the stairs at the Eras tour, I get arrested and banned from all future Taylor Swift shows, yet Josh Hartnett does it to a women and gets promoted to director of the FBI or something??? Is it an age thing??
You too? Wtf! Every damn time I toss a kid out an elevator or over the rails of a ship, I get the nastiest looks (you wouldn't believe how rude ppl can be). I think ppl just hate ppl like us because they're jealous. 😆
Dude it's a movie, not a real life thing.
Who has a receipt for concert tickets? Also throngs of people walking around the arena while the concert is on. Lady Raven leaves alone. No security? Assistant?
I said the same thing even though I liked the silly camp of the movie. With just a little digging by the police they should've been able to to figure out what seats the guy has. Right?
Some arenas still accept paper barcodes.
Why didn't the FBI just wait for them at their house when they get home? Arresting him during the concert full of people raises up all of sorts of dumb problems.
Because they didnt know who he was and where he lived, just that he'd be there. But yeh trying to vet thousands of men on their way out of an arena is dumb as hell
@@CosmosesJones Oh right the receipt. I'm getting second-hand dumb from this movie. I'm having an mnightshyamalitis episode right now.
@@justindalechan181 understandable lmao
@@CosmosesJones the whole receipt thing was so dumb. Which receipt doesn't say anything on who the buyer was. There would be time stamps, maybe type of payment or something on it which the FBI could have easily used to track it back to Cooper
@rvnx_potatoe9758 true. There i would give it the benefit of the doubt though and suspend my disbelief cause maybe the torn part just shows the event and the part with any personal info or real leads would have been the part the wife kept. Still it is indeed a dumbfuck way to go about it cause if you suspect your husband to be a serial killer why not just call in an anonymous tip, why put him in a sistuation where he may feel trapped and has not only your daughter but thousands of other people around him he can harm. Such a dumb movie. It had so much potential but it was just so so dumb
The only highlight of this movie: 30 second of Kid Cudi as a Targaryen 💀💀
I was so confused since they never showed him again after that 😅
How do you handcuff a serial killer who has proven to be a Houdini with the cuffs in front and put him in the back of a truck alone with no eyes on him? Wtf? This was the most unbelievable part of the movie.
like literally an officer sitting on each side of him
Tell me how he got his shirt back on (to conceal the spoke) between the time the FBI tackled him and them chaining and cuffing him. Ridiculous.
The emotional moment with the bike is what got me. All the officers just hanging around while he's messing around with shit in his yard mid-arrest... aside from the killer's weird stealth magic tricks, everybody in this movie was insanely incompetent
@@MoneyManHolmesOH MY GOD I DIDNT NOTICE THIS.
NOBODY ever sees him being a Houdini through the movie, though. Except us.
AT LAST!...A no holds barred review that nails this lobotomized film ....obviously you're not on the payroll like other reviewers who loved it...I SALUTE YOU.
Let me guess.... did Chris shillmen like this movie? 😆
Are you not Stuckmanized?
@@ksly87 nope. He's definitely compromised
Chris Stuckman is absolutely useless, Ryan from Screen Crush and whatshisface from Rockstars are boot lickers as well. It's shameful how easily those 3 were bought. Cheaply, too.
Ppl actually think its good??? 😂😂😂
The level of incompetence in this movie 🎥 😂😂😂
This is the LAST time I pay for an M.Night Shamalyan film.
I didn’t pay and still want my money back!! Hahaha I want to get paid for waisting almost 2 hours of my life. 😅😅😅😅. I went to see Bad Boys 4 and snuck in to see the 9:50 show. So glad I didn’t pay 😬😬😬😒😒😒
@@suzyq3771glad you didn't,it did good without you 😂
The nepotism is sending me. Just direct a concert film for your daughter ffs.
A movie called Trap and there's no trap music. Missed opportunity 😏
hahhaha, yes, i had a same thought
Totally brah. Missed more than a Christie Mousetrap reference, fer sure
The killer made a big assumptuon that Lady Raven would care about a random guy. She could turn up not to care and scream for help. Also , it was stupid she let him.in to her dressing room under the pretext of talking about his daughter.
They knew that the killer was gonna try and get close to Lady Raven for his daughter.
The twist where Josh Hartnett breaks the 4th wall in the final scene, looks at the camera, and says: "It's Trappin' Time.", before he starts trapping people left and right, has been THE movie experience of the century. Bravo M. Night! Absolute cinema.
Laughed out loud. Thank you
@@AdamDoesMovies great job as always,.. the part that irked me the most and seems to ruin the ENTIRE FOUNDATIONAL PLOT of the movie is that the police really had no idea who they were even looking for , couldnt he have so easily walked out of there with his daughter at any time? As soon as he grabbed the police radio and heard the chatter that they were looking for a bunch of random possible suspects, his mind should have rested easy that they had no clue who they were actually looking for.. yes even with the wrist tattoo identified simply as a 'person of possible interest' of many suspicious.... there was no actual evidence they could point to in a body search or interview to link him to the crimes (the receipt only manifested that he would likely be in attendance it wouldnt identify who he was and even that is weak since a receipt at that house wouldnt prove he was going to actually be there! there are a million possible reasons for that receipt being there! )... so the real risk for him it seemed then was not in leaving the arena that day , but perhaps in 'EVENTUALLY' getting caught in the days or weeks to follow, as they were narrowing in on him, he being on video as one of the 3000 male possibilities...
@@comparehealthlifedentalTL;DR
@@comparehealthlifedental Not to mention, reasonable detainment did not apply to 3,000 people. Probable cause did not exist.
@@DDD11239 sure, but my point in bringing that up was not really about detainment at the site, but more that they were narrowing down from an infinite universe of suspects down to 3k or less.. and maybe they could eventually close in on him even further in the days or weeks to come..
So your saying this, and The Watchers is the ultimate nepotism year for the Shyamalans
I wonder if M.Night has any more kids for him to use as an excuse to produce even more lousy movies.
Got to respect Sean Chandler for giving The Watchers an honest review despite having interviewed her literally just beforehand! Lol
She was also on the 2nd unit director for Old and made a song for the soundtrack. Nepotism level = 1000.
At least she could sing. I've seen a lot of movies where the director's or lead actor's wife is there for a cameo and can't act.
I'll never forgive M Night Shamalamadingdong for ruining Avatar
truly one of the worst movies i have ever seen, and i'm having a hard time not feeling extremely concerned whenever i read a review that raves about it. it's very worrisome!!!
i literally laughed out loud when the guy at the t-shirt stand started talking about how much he liked the dad and daughters family values. it was the most AI-generated sounding dialogue i have EVER heard.
how do movies like this get greenlit?!?!
They don't get greenlit, he funds them himself that's why lmao. But I agree everytime I see an M Night movie it's like my new most hated movie lmao. Last that it was old which I really hated
The whole script was so odd Lol. This surely wasn't written by an adult or a human for that matter. Film full of NPCs. It was like watching a weird episode of Scooby Doo. 😂
My new favorite critic.. thank you for not holding back and actually critiquing a bad movie instead of you know sugar coating it
The internet finding that guy in 4 seconds was the most realistic part of this movie 😂
Given some of the stuff he’s able to do, he probably could have just left the concert the way the regular guests do and make it past the mandatory police screening without them figuring out that it’s him.
No, he's not able to use his psychic abilities when several people focus on him at the same time...and not around his family either.
Worst movie ive seen in decades
I am just sorry that Josh Hartnett had to be in this movie. He's such a good actor and deserves better.
Also in the swag bags they had temporary tattoos. Since they were looking for a guy with a certain tattoo, I thought for sure they were going to use the one to obscure the other.
Another missed opportunity for diversion. Cover his own tattoo. Instead, let's highjack the star of the show and her limo. That will be easier.
The FBI lady also played Miss Bliss from Saved by the Bell😅
I'm truly upset that I didn't realize that at the time!
I knew I knew her!
She is Haily Mills. Her claim to fame as being in the original film version of The Parent Trap. I think that was supposed to be an inside joke to the audience. She's wasted. Less concert footage and a bit more about this FBI profiler would have helped out this movie a bit.
@@AdamDoesMovies I appreciate the sarcasm! What did her work on The Parent Trap have to do with the movie, me wonders? THINKING ...
I left feeling pissed at this film.
at some point they would have noticed some one threw bottles in the fryer..roll the cameras back to see who turned up the fryer and threw the bottles in!! search over! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 the place had cameras, fbi, police all thru it!
There were cameras everywhere. Even if Cooper escaped without anyone knowing, they would have had tons of video evidence identifying him.
And she stood there and looked at the bottles. Like...I wonder what's going to happen....maybe I should run and tell my fellow kitchen staff to get down? No, I'm going to stand in front of the fryer and stare at it until it explodes in my face.
There's no way he could have walked pass and in front of them concert pple and employees not to be seen doing it is why they did show how he actually did it without being seen
I feel like every *M. Night Shyamalan* movie is based in his own reality and it feels odd to us mere mortals.
This movie should be a training video for the Secret Service😂😂😂
@@christinaknight794 What NOT to do! 😂
I couldn’t believe how fucking amateur this movie was. He must have written this over the weekend. The quality of it is the same as an old 90’s made for TV movie of the week.
U ever met am asian dude named spencer Gordon?
What was the point of finding out that she had asthma? They lingered for so long on her taking a puff of her inhaler, but then like so many other things nothing really materialized of that moment.
Another pointless decoy moment. Same thing when the male duet singer romantically winks and gestures at the killer like he wants him to make a move on him. I thought that was going to be his way to sneak out, but it just happened and was over, never mentioned again. I wonder how much “scrapbooking” was employed on this film. The whole ending sequence seems poorly thought out and tacked on.
For me it explained why she needs 15+ minutes to do a set change and catch her breath and just allowed for people to flood the stadium hallways in the meantime
It shows the killer instinctive hatred for her because she shows her emotions...and her weaknesses, unlike him.
And then he looks at her angry, like he's going to use his psychic powers on her ...and an assistant falls instead of her, showing she's immune to Cooper's powers.
This scene is the only one where we can see him use psychokinesis to hurt someone. The rest of the scenes we just see his hypnosis powers, and his ability to remain unseen by "crippling" other people's minds.
I love superhero movies, and it is one (more of a supervillain movie, actually) 😉
Would've loved to have seen him sneakily get her inhaler, then the drama of locking herself in the bathroom triggering a huge asthma attack, causing her to panic because she can't find her inhaler and she's now only got a really small window of time to make a decision. But, nope, just let that hang yet it could have had so much potential.
Thank you for bringing up the “I release you” or whatever Raven says. I was so perturbed that they clearly spotlighted her for that moment and pulled a Chekov’s Gun with it.
I saw Deadpool and Wolverine tonight, and as good as it was I swear this video had me laughing so much harder 😂😂😂
I really really really thought i predicted the ending whilst watching the movie - I thought there was something deeper with the daughter and her rough relationships, and M Night spent a minute focusing on Lady Raven puffing on an inhaler. Additionally carbon monoxide was brought up twice, and I thought he was gonna use Hitchcock rules of three for foreshadowing…
Anyways, I though this was gonna happen in the scene at the house:
At the point of the piano phone switch situation, we were gonna find out that Lady Raven calls the police to inform them cooler is the butcher using Rylies phone (to do it as slyly as possible, so she doesn’t use her own phone)
Then puts phone down and sees that Rylie has the same “evil camera app” on her phone along with all sorts of other evidence- she’s the true killer!
*Twist background: Rylie is a troubled kid, bad relationship with friends, takes out anger in strangers. Cooper facilitates and protects her.*
Then somehow to wrap things up Lady raven has a puff of her inhaler (now modified with carbon monoxide) so that she dies without telling anyone about rylies dark secret.
Film ends with Cooper locked up, Raven dead, and Rylie free. Rylie apologises to her dad for getting him into this situation (in front of the police - but vague enough to not raise eyebrows) and somehow he turns on his flash light on his phone to show he forgives her.
Gas
Wow - I wish you had been involved in the writing
Wow! THIS sounds better than what we got in the actual movie! 😂
Dumbest thing is that the FBI already knows who he is,but not one single agent,officer, etc has been shown a picture to know who to look for. Plus,what's the deal with J.Edgar Hoover's Mom,oldest,still working major crimes.
The dumbest thing is actually the fact it hinged on a total unreality. She planted the torn receipt in the house and then an anonymous tip. Why would the FBI take such a leap of faith on an absolute needle in a haystack situation? Why would there be a physical receipt for a show of that size when most ticket companies are now completely electronic especially arena venues?
Aside from this, they would likely shift through the subjects at the entry point before the show in which case this is a totally different format of movie. Probably a chase film. We don't even get an indication that the authorities even know anything definitive about the suspect aside from the fact he MIGHT be going to the show. They were hoping the killer would give himself up upon interrogation. The whole thing was a giant fishing expedition.
Prolly bc she was the lead in The Parent Trap, dunno tho durrr
Would’ve been cool if the wife was in on it as well. Thought that was going to happen. But yeah, silly writing. But the movie is dumb enough to keep you watching. Die Hard but with Norman Bates.
Honestly my favorite twist would have been that he was being framed and being manipulated by the real killer who is threatening to kill his family or other people at the concert. Another twist could have been that the wife planted the tip because she was the real killer and Cooper's plan is to escape and save his son without alerting the authorities.
I agree with you!! I was feeling gaslight at first when I saw everyone in love with it. I was expecting blood and guts. The concept is cute but I needed more horror movie action!!
Attention aspiring screenwriters! I know it can be frustrating trying to convince people with money to fund your film project. But "Trap" is what happens when you are rich enough finance your own movies with no one to tell you to do a re-write. Sometimes it's good to have a wall of separation between concept and final product.
the "i release you" line was no foreshadowing catchphrase, sir. it was an actual warn and the last couple of chances handed you to get up and walk out of the trap lmao
I feel a bit bad for Josh Hartnett, he was great in Penny Dreadful.
Josh Hartnett is a great actor. It's good to see teen heartthrobs grow into real artists.
30 days of night💪
@@robynmarler1951 Also The Faculty. Both guilty pleasures.
He was really good in Oppenheimer, so hopefully he'll be back again.
josh acting was very good despite the script
IT WAS SO BAAAADDDDD! It's like a 5th grader wrote this script. I agree with everything in your review. So many absurd and convenient scenes. This movie was THE WORST!
THEE absolute WORST. Definitely a waist of time
The real Trap is getting us to watch Shyamalan’s daughter singing.
Did you miss that weird scene in the car when she pretends to be his mom?
I didn’t even focus on that because her acting was god awful 😂.
@@LorenzoC2314oh yes, she is pretty face but lacks the skills to pull off such deep stuff
It was so poorly acted that I couldn’t tell if it was really Lady Raven or the killer was hallucinating about her again.
yeah wtf was that? the "good boy" speech and him calling her mom, absolutely bizarre, I felt like I must've missed some serious context but I don't think there was any
@@choreograft he called her mum ironically IMO , to show her it doesnt work.
"Technology does not like water"
Especially when M. Night has made SEVERAL movies where WATER is the "weakness". Split/Glass, Signs, Old (if you count the beach)
he is a reptilian for sure
I truly loved Old. I have all his DVDs (except the one that doesn't exist, in Ba Sing Se).
@@DDD11239 No 4Ks or Blu-rays? Just DVDs?
Unbreakable
@@scottopie8292 yes lol that’s I meant haha sorry
i went pretty blind into this, only knowing cast and crew and very aware of shyamalan rocky trackrecord of late.
im in total shock there are people out there calling it a master piece. if your main criteria for masterpiece is that is has to make absolutely no sense at all, yeah then this movie has no equal.
for anyone using a brain, it will just hurt. i walked out pissed off out of the theatre
And I don’t understand the film twitter defending this movie for having an artistic dialogue. Well the artsy dialogue doesn’t work in this movie man.
Same
It wasn't perfect but it was an original idea. Unlike a lot of other thrillers that are cliché.
@@crystinamarie1 a bad movie is still a bad movie even if its original. Also i wouldn't claim it was free from clishes
@@bekhele name some clishes then 😆
This isn't a spoiler, anyone that watched the trailer saw the entire movie... since there are no kills only injuries and both of those are shown in the trailer. Trap is the equivalent of a long episode of Nickelodeon's Goosebumps... and even then, at least that series had a more cohesive plot for each episode. There is no twist at the end... they ran out of songs and they needed to ed the movie and the villain was defeated by a bathroom door he couldn't break and a live streaming audience that pulled the biggest CSI episode in 40 secs.
It felt like everything was in Cooper's head once he learned the concert was a trap, everything goes his way and he wins in the end..
That's an interesting way to look at it.
everything would have made sense if they revealed he was captured at the concert but imagined the entire escape
This review was hilarious!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂
IKR 😂😂😂 He was REALLY pissed by how dumb it was 😆
can anyone explain how the wife was suspicious it was him? and plus if she thought it was just an affair why would she report that to the cops for the butcherer? makes no sense. plus if they had his identity as a potential suspect it makes sense to just interview and question him rather than catch him and ‘potential other suspects who happen to also be at the concert and they just happen to know too’
Ok Adam I think youve helped me figure stuff out. See, usually one sees a movie because of a premise, right? The film trailer is was meant to introduce the premise. Intrigue us. The film is meant to be a premise, plus everything else that fills in the details. To see what they would do with a premise. Plus the filmmaker used to use their instincts, style, expectations, etc to develop something. An entertaining experience at best. An entertaining spectacle at worst. But now they know they need only the premise. Many films now add nothing to a bare premise. It will get many people to watch. If not in the physical building where movies are projected, then at home because the physical building is not a great place to be most times. Yet, there has to be an ending to the movie. Everything in between has been rendered insignificant. Premise, then some kind of ending. That is what many movies have become.
Secret Service level law enforcement here.😂
The killer even got on the roof 😂
If the secret service can't secure slightly sloped roofs 150 yards away, I believe the security in an M. Knight film is crap.
😂
Lol
Cooper also leaves his fingerprints absolutely everywhere.
My favourite part was when Lady Raven cuts off the flesh on her arm & reveals that she’s The Ravenator model T-800 & she will not stop until her mission is complete.
Just saw this today. I had to kill 3 hours and the showtime lined up.
What i loved:
1. The reclining leather seat in the empty theater.
2. Josh Hartnett's performance. Seriously i thought he did good. He went from dad of the year to killer. Id watch him act again.
What i didnt like:
1. Everything else. Mostly the unbelievable plot. She just WALKED to the limo with the killer and.......nevermind. Just nevermind. I cant. Literally the ENTIRE plot bothered me.
It wasnt great and i saw it in the best possible theater experience. Only better experience is back in the day when you had one option during a flight. This was almost that. Shmeh. Whole thing was shmeh.
'That was a lot of information for a security guard to have' perfectly summed up the movie.
They called it Trap because Hartnett was trapped in a crappy movie
This movie shouldn't have been called Trap, it should have been called Incompetence.
He is a magician. I thought he dug a hole underneath the limo to get away…. How did he throw the stuff into the fryer in the kitchen. At one point, I expect him to approach his wife and says “I’m Batman”
Man just watched this movie and it was absolutely terrible 1/10
I know the movie has flaws but almost everyone does, so i liked it very much
I knew Chris Stuckman was full of 💩 when he said this movie was good.
the SWAT in the movie is probably the same people who worked at the Trump assassination
Actually trump is a idiot who's losing and that so-called attempt on his life was staged!! His ear is not even damaged, wake up trumper 😂
his wife was smart enough to think it was him, call in an anonymous tip instead of getting her children FAR away from him. the police letting him hold that bike in that end was foolish. they went through all this trouble to catch him only for him to get treated like a regular dad. THOUSANDS of people saw him pounding on the bathroom door (shining reference) on her instagram live. also that singer was goofball for not saying Cooper's fckin name!!
Ya know what would be an interesting twist for the end? The reason Lady Raven wanted to go into is because she is also a serial killer and she has other men come into the house and overpowers the family and locks them in the basement with the guy already there and releases the gas before leaving.
The movie just makes no sense why even set up his daughter as having issues with her friends? Imagine if you were kidnapped and ariana grande calls you and helps you escape then you hug her.the bit I laughed at the most was when just a big unsupervised hole opens in the middle of the isle and stays that way for 5 minutes.this film is wack.
This movie works as a comedy , not a single scare in it or suspense
Totally agreed! We are trapped by this movie for 1hr 45 mins... lousy storytelling.. kind of showing off his daughter's music.. lame excuse to showcase her music.
Watched this today and HATED all the plot holes. Came to YT to see what everyone else thought. Found your video and now I'm no longer sad that I wasted €12 on it, because this was 21 minutes of pure comedy! Thank you sir!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks!
kinda shocked at how bad this movie was... it was like M knight just made a cheap film to have his daughter star in it thts all
Nothing was worst than the acting. M nights daughter was horrible as an actor. Especially the guy at the stand that gave the killer all the info. I hated him.
Poor guy was hypnotized by a serial killer with PSYCHIC POWERS.
Watch the movie again.
As a fan of female pop singers, I would have expected Adam to "rave" about the magnificent Saleka Shymalyan. In all seriousness, I like female pop singers too and I couldn't even recall a single song by the time I left the theater.
The only trap was the trailer making us think it was good. We were all trapped into seeing a 2 hour music video that was made for the lifetime network. Such a terrible film, did the entire budget go to Josh and had his children write the dialogue??? It made me angry it was so bad, I want my money back 🚮
The movie was horrible 🤦🏽♀️. I went to see it out of boredom. I should have just stayed home to Netflix and chill 😂😂😂😂.
The daughter was given a gift bag from the concert organizer. She says "Dad there is so much in this bag... there are tattoos, etc". I thought for sure he was going to take one of the tattoos and use it to cover the rabbit tattoo on his wrist to get out of the building. NO... Nope! Also, Raven was locked in the house's bathroom for a long time. She could have just climbed out the window, she was on the first floor!
Yeah i was like dude just leave, they dont have proof, what the hell are you doing there but yeah If that happened there would be no movie
Hey, I'm a mom! I took my 14 yr old son to see Crap on Thurs. Worst movie ever. Don't forget the part where t-shirt guy not only invited the strange man into the backroom alone with him during a lockdown, but was also a mega "Butcher" fanatic, and handed the stranger his boxcutter to hold.
Trap should have been titled Crap.
Fantastic review.
Very funny.
Thanks Adam.
M.Night films always start with a lot of potential so it’s a real waste of opportunity to have these movies nose-dive into the mountain side in every instance.
With that said, I now release you from this movie.
So the Stadium and Artist allows the FBI and Police to lure a SERIAL KILLER into a concert with 20,000 teen girls and surround it with SWAT, armed with assault rifles?????? IMPOSSIBLE The film totally lost me there
I just... how did he get out of that limo? That man is 6'3. There's no way he's changing out of swat gear in the driver's seat, speaking from experience. And then like... the car was surrounded on all sides. Body to body. He just managed to open the door, slip out, close the door, and disappear into the shadows with not one person noticing??? Just like how apparently no one noticed him pushing a lady down the stairs? And not one cop, despite having 10 of them surrounding him at every angle, noticed he somehow managed to pull a big piece of metal off a bike and shove it down his sleeve? Listen I'm all for suspending reality in film but c'mon lol.
About the beef that Riley had with her classmates: it's not important what happened between them, but it's a detail that shows what an involved dad Cooper is. It's not about Riley, it's about his character.
The "forgiveness" scene at the concert is also about Cooper. He does not participate in the ritual whereas virtually everyone else does.
The wife knew he was the killer because she was apart but she couldn't handle it anymore
I was so mad when he handcuffed her inside the limo and instead of using her STILETTO SHOES to break the glass, or at least bang on the window and make noise with soooo many people around, she tried her hardest to put down the window when it could've been locked 😐
This movie should have been called “No Common Sense Anywhere.”
For me the concert was the best part and Lady Raven was a better performer than actor. LOL It was awkward to watch all of those stupid interactions between everyone and Cooper! Plus the camera angle when he would talk with anyone it was almost like he didn't film with them in the same room and he was looking down at them. I can understand that but it was just an weird exchange and I agree the other girl's mom was annoying.
I was so excited for this movie but its not great!
The movie played off as AI wrote and directed it with very little understanding of human interactions.
I had an impression that this tshirt guy knew Cooper so that’s why he was so nice to him? I’m not sure but I think the tshirt guy called him Cooper without him introducing himself first?
YES HE DID!!
I saw the whole "I release you" moment way differently.
in the scene, Lady Raven says something like "I want you to think of someone who's hurt you, and try to forgive them and say I release you. If you can do that, turn on the light on your phone"
Riley does, cause she had that whole big thing with Jodie, the girl who hurt her. Almost literally everyone puts on the light on their phone. Except Cooper. and looking back, we know he was abused by his mother. So he doesn't try to forgive her, and all of that is somewhat connected to how he is as a murderer. That's what that whole moment was.
That was my biggest problem with the movie, that they didn't reveal more about his background and how that connects to him as a killer cause in his case it absolutely does.
That was my issue with the movie, too. No backstory, or flashbacks. Character development? How did he get here? Who were his other victims? He wasn't frightening....not really. All we really got was a monetarily frugal dad with OCD.
And also "I release you" : you can take it metaphorically, and he refuses to forgive his mother...
Or literally, he doesn't want to release his victim.
Haley Mills technically did a parent trap.