Saturday, 3 August 2024

Trap - The scoop and digest

The latest from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan also has geezer cameo as a spotter.

Josh Harnett - Cooper
Ariel Donoghue - Riley
Saleka Shyamalan - Lady Raven
Alison Pill - Rachel Adams
Hayley Mills - Dr. Josephine Grant
Jonathan Langdon - Jamie

Summary

While at Lady Raven's pop concert with his teenage daughter Riley, Cooper notices an unusually heavy police presence around the venue.

He learns from a vendor that a serial killer known as the Butcher is due to attend and the FBI plan to bring bastard down.

It's soon revealed that Cooper is the Butcher, and a guy called Spencer he captured earlier is slowly dying of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Profiler Dr. Grant and Lady Raven become part of the chaos.

Monsters are real

Jesus Christ! Why do I keep putting myself through such torture?

Harnett does the heavy lifting as devoted psycho dad, but ridiculous premise is neither clever or entertaining - just fucking DUMB.

By the time action switches to Riley's house, I'd already lost the will to live and nearly nodded off.

Saleka's songs and singing were okay, but acting debut sucked spectacular balls.

Overall, another Shyamalan nuclear bomb.

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