Trap (2024)
★★
This review may contain spoilers.
this could have been so great, but it falls short in a few areas, dialogue was awkward, the emotions were off, the scale is cool, the concept is cool but falls short in other areas.
notes below
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- she should've been singing over all the opening credits.
- the lights up is a cool image.
- I would be remise to mention that this is technically really impressive, concert and people and stuff
- as soon as it was revealed that he is being hunted the whole persona he was putting on changed completely.
- omg another dexter movie, Don't Move and now this one, these movies just redoing what dexter did years ago but not as interesting or as good.
- the way that information is given is off, like it's given to us when we need it like that moment (i.e. the fire alarm), or it's provided to us after the event has happened which gives us this off kelter feeling of feeling like we don't have the full list of info before beginning.
- Josh's outfit looks great.
- god imagine if he had to actually get out of this situation with smarts and wits instead of just blackmail, like if he had to pass an inspection, cover up his tattoo, pretend to be a different person in front of his daughter, all that stuff, what an intriguing concept for a film but the execution for me falls flat, it's so cool to have your film take place over the course of one or two locations, it requires to explore the characters and ideas and themes that you are going for in a direct manner, to build tension in a naturalistic way, but it just doesn't vibe for me.
- the twist is the length of the movie, I thought the Limo was the end but nope.
- it's cool to have this scene take place entirely in the bathroom.
- he says never let the two lives touch, WHY DIDN'T WE GET THIS BEFORE?? THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN CRUCIAL!!
- REALLY? NO WAY THEY THOGUHT THAT WE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS IN THAT CAR.
- like, he knows how to craft a scene, this pie scene crafts a scene so well, introduces an element that is brought back the tea urn, sets a twist with the sleeping powder, sets tension with I'll finish this in five bites, but it ultimately falls a bit flat because of the context of which the scenes fall into place.
- a movie is about set up and pay off, there is no setup, no payoff, this hug should feel earned but it doesn't it feels needed, but not earned. we see the dad and daughter interact a lot but we don't feel there relationship, we see his care to be methodical and cunning by adjusting tennis rackets and his hide away spot but it feels more like we are just being deceived into a twist not watching a methodical man work out a complicated problem, we see his childhood but we don't feel it, why didn't we see the mother more, why didn't we have a confrontation, she just appears in weird scenes but it doesn't feel earned at all.
