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Trap - Review
Matthew Brady - wrote on 08/06/2025
M. Night Shyamalan's Trap is an entertaining watch and M. Night's most memorable effort compared to his other two forgettable entries, Old and Knock at the Cabin.
However, the movie is also idiotic. While the premise has a strong hook, it has plenty of plot holes. The logic is very much movie logic, as all the events only happen in this universe.
I mean, this entire sting operation to trap a serial killer, known as the butcher, at a concert without knowing what he looks like, and the whole thing was on a hutch.
If they had known what he looked like, he would have been arrested immediately, and this would have been a short film.
I wonder if there's a chance this could happen in the Unbreakable Universe, where Cooper has superpowers that make things work out for him and …
