Trap (M. Night Shyamalan, August 2, 2024) Movie • Page 11

Yeah, this is more about watching Josh Hartnett be an evil genius than great filmmaking but that’s okay, that’s what it needed to be.

 

(I think it is also great filmmaking)

 

I had some fun. I just felt absolutely no suspense because the cops accurately have one brain cell to share between them and the way Hartnett escapes isn’t even really clever. He’s just dealing with some of the dumbest people in the world. Someone referred to it as a “white privilege simulator” that gave me a good laugh.

The nitpicking is just fun because it’s just so wildly different from how anything in real life works. It doesn’t affect my enjoyment of movie because, as others said, it’s such an absurd premise.

 

I don’t think the premise here (which to restate, is only a slightly altered version of a sting operation that actually happened and was wildly successful), is so insane that it invalids criticisms of all the ludicrous things that occur just to move the plot forward. For me, most of the fun in watching Cooper wriggle his way out of the stadium is softened by that, but that’s not to say there weren’t also things I liked. Not everything is just good or just bad!

 

The police allowing the kids to come out and hug their serial killer dad immediately after he either smooshed a cop’s eyes in is very funny.

 

like that’s never happened to you!

 

Not since 2018 I think. Damn

 

John Hartnett lol.

Cudi and Hartnett are close friends in real life too which made the scene much sweeter.

 

Im glad and can see why some of you liked it, (especially those hyped for it), but the more i think back on it, the more i think it was overall pretty lame. It didnt excel in any area (acting, suspense, thrills) and suffered in too many (dialogue, pacing, tonal shifts, massive suspension of disbelief, accidental comedy). Im almost annoyed at how the premise was wasted as there was a good core there.

Where it appears to be landing on all review sites (pretty middling, if not slightly below) feels right.

 

Hartnett was acting his ass off

 

and allowed him to clean up, put a shirt on, and stand his kids bike up.

 

damn when you put it that way grimace

 

that freaking nut job

 

helps that his daughter's clearly actually very talented too, it's not one of those nepo casts that drags down an entire movie

 

If people.cared and took talent into consideration for the nepotism dicussion, i wouldnt be sick of hearing that word.

 

this was fun and dumb and fine
it was a good time

(future frick lyrics maybe haha?)

 

I'm finally getting back into Servant after falling off it before. the second to last episode of s1 might be some of the best TV I've ever seen. Shyamalan absolutely cooked directing that shit

 

i really loved that show up until the abysmal final season