Movie Review: Trap

The M. Night Shyamalan trend since "The Sixth Sense" (1999) and "Unbreakable" (2000) were released as great movies continue. After hitting his peak with these two movies from 25 years ago, Shyamalan has continued to make mediocre or bad movies ever since. His latest release "Trap" is not only a bad movie, it is amazingly stupid - and could be ranked as the dumbest movie ever made.

The main premise of "Trap" is probably inspired from the success of the recent and hugely popular Taylor Swift world tour, about a serial killer known as "The Butcher", played by Josh Hartnett who is at a concert of a major female singing star with his daughter and the police know he is at this concert - so they set some kind of undefined trap to catch him. What follows is a series of stupid events, that make no sense. Towards the end of this disaster is a meeting between Cooper, played by Hartnett, and the singer Lady Raven, played by Saleka Shyamalan, the daughter of M. Night Shyamalan - where Raven is by herself talking to Cooper within an isle in this huge stadium and later in a separate room and inexplicably Raven's entire security team is nowhere to be found. This is the star of a huge concert with over 20 thousand fans and her security team is not anywhere near her. How could such a glaring and obvious error get past the writer and director of this bad movie? What is Shyamalan thinking?

Cooper and Raven eventually wind up at his house with his wife and 2 kids and once again, her security team is nowhere around them. I could not believe that a director and screenwriter who once was as great as Shyamalan could fall this far. The level of illogical stupidity of this story is extremely hard to understand.

It was also hard to understand why Josh Harnett who is attempting a comeback as a movie actor would choose a movie this bad to make his return to movie acting. Hopefully, Hartnett can recover from this bad mistake.

The Rotten Tomatoes critics are way too high 48% with my rating of 10% and a run for your life miss this horrendous and very stupid mess of a film.