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Movie Information

Overall Rank: 15309

Average Rating: 2.3/4

# of Ratings: 17

Theatrical Release Date: 08/02/2024

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 11/05/2024

Language: English

Genre: Horror, Mystery

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Actors: Josh Hartnett, Hayley Mills, Marnie McPhail, Vanessa Smythe, Saleka Shyamalan, Scott Ian MacDougall

Plot: Cooper takes his daughter, Riley, to a concert for the popular pop star
Lady Raven. But Cooper has a secret - he is a most-wanted serial killer
and the site of the concert is actually sting operation to capture him.
Now he will have to figure out how to escape this massive event without
being caught - and hopefully keep his secret safe.

Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 11/09/2024

Trips over the same hurdles the last half dozen Shyamalan disappointments have. Illogical character actions, bad dialogue, plotting that's downright preposterous, and not a single moment of anything slightly scary or tense.

Chris Kavan - wrote on 10/28/2024

Like so many of M. Night Shyamalan's more mediocre efforts what starts off as a tense and quite plausible situation just gets more and more ridiculous as things go along. But props to Josh Hartnett, who plays the role to a tee and even thought it stinks of nepotism, Saleka Shyamalan manages to pull off a pretty good pop star as Lady Raven. Still, if it didn't go so far off the rails in the second act, I'd give it a higher rating but it is what it is.

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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 …