M. Night Shyamalan's Trap

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'Trap' review: A wildly entertaining father-daughter thriller

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67% Informative

The film's story is tightly wound around a dopey premise, but it's buoyed by incredible heart and soul.

It's about a well-to-do Philadelphia firefighter, Cooper ( Josh Hartnett ) who takes his teenage daughter to a show by her favorite popstar, only to discover that the concert is also a trap to capture him.

Josh Hartnett's fine-tuned, operatic performance keeps Trap on track.

The film circles the question of what fatherhood means for someone who has such horrific, secret impulses.

It's hard not to root for Cooper each time he pulls off a small heist to slip past security guards.

Shyamalan 's thriller wouldn't be nearly as impactful without cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom's visual trickery and evolving use of space.

The film practically controls your breathing through its aesthetics, alternating between claustrophobia and a bizarre form of relief, where you find yourself rooting for a guy to get back to his hobby of dismembering innocent people.

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