Film: Trap
Cast: Josh Hartnett, Hayley Mills, Allison Pill, Ariel Donoghue, Jonathan Langdon
Director: Manoj Night Shyamalan
Rating: 2.5/5
Runtime: 105 min

Manoj Night Shyamalan’s most recent forays into the paranormal thriller with the typical patented twisty endgame have had poor pay-offs. Shyamalan’s films have of late been misses and the expectations from this one was also quite tepid. ‘Trap’ his latest in a string of movies aiming for Hitchcockian thrills, is pleasant to look at but the arsenal feels unloaded.

The concept is interesting enough. The set-up inspired by Operation Flagship, a sting operation in which disguised law enforcement captured fugitives under the pretense of gifting them free NFL tickets. Shyamalan turns the NFL match idea into a music concert to set-up a fairly original construct where a father and his teen daughter attend.