Charlize Theron

Courtney Love

Stuart Townsend

Kevin Bacon

Pruitt Taylor Vince

Dakota Fanning

Steve Rankin

Garry Chalk

Jodie Markell

Matt Koby

Gerry Becker

Andrew Airlie

Randi Lynne

Colleen Camp

J. B. Bivens

John Scott

Gregory Bennett

Jim Filippone

Brent Woolsey

Luis Mandoki

Greg Iles

Mimi Polk Gitlin

Glen Ballard

Mark Canton

Neil Canton

Rick Hess

Hanno Huth

John Ottman

Frederick Elmes

Piotr Sobociński

Gerald B. Greenberg

Kevin Fair

David Mylrea

Michael Kaplan

Louis DiGiaimo

Richard Sylbert

Melissa R. Stubbs

Corry Glass

Marny Eng

Glenn Cocco

Thriller

Crime

Trapped

Senator Film

Propaganda Films

Columbia Pictures

Germany

United States of America

Clap Trap.

Trapped is directed by Luis Mandoki and written by Greg Iles. It stars Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Dakota Fanning. Music is by John Ottman and cinematography is by Frederick Elmes.

Based on Iles’ book 24 Hours, Trapped aspires to be a potent kidnap thriller, an attempt to use the kidnapping of a young girl as some sort of edge of the seat entertainment, sadly it’s poorly constructed and quite frankly ill advised.

A fine cast has assembled for the picture, but nobody distinguishes themselves as they try to make the generic and idiotic material work. On the atmosphere side of the fence things aren’t half bad, there’s a grim and grubby feel to proceedings, but Mandoki consistently ruins each passage of promise with cack-handed convolutions, which when the core plot device is a dumb drug set-up, only makes the feeble efforts of making a twisty thriller even more laughable. The crowning glory of the latter being the finale, which is ludicrous. 2/10 with young Fanning the only one coming out of it with any credit.

English

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