Title - Trap
Production - Blinding Edge Pictures, Warner Bros.
Starring - Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Alison Pill, Saleka Shyamalan, Jonathan Langdon, Hayley Mills, Kid Cudi, Marnie McPhail, Vanessa Smythe, M. Night Shyamalan
Writer - M. Night Shyamalan
Director - M. Night Shyamalan
Release - 2 August 2024
M. Night Shyamalan is still putting himself in his movies. He always pulls me out every time I see him though.
And Josh Hartnett looked off in a Shyamalan movie, much like how Mark Wahlberg felt off in The Happening.
One could argue that this movie was all about Shyamalan promoting his singer-daughter. She's not natural in front of the camera, and yet Shyamalan shoved her in to the point where she has a huge role in this movie - much to the detriment of it.
The dialogue still hurt sometimes. It's bloated with Marnie McPhail's character that had nothing to do with the main plot, but just a device to probably throw the audience off. And some of the sequences made no sense, like how Hartnett's character was able to get out of a car surrounded by people unnoticed.
I take no pleasure in writing this review because I used to revere this storyteller, was his defender even. But this movie was bad, saved only by the brilliant performance of Alison Pill in the third act.
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