I watched Trap starring Josh Hartnett… but is there a twist!?

Trap is a movie directed by M. Night Shyamalan so you might be wondering if it has a big twist as a lot of his movies do. Well, spoiler alert: This is me not telling you that it definitely does. Or does it? What is a twist anyway? Is it something you can do (Chubby Checker reference there for good measure)? Now that song is stuck in your head, isn’t it? See how I’m gradually changing the subject so you have no idea if there’s a twist or not because you forgot all about all the twists in M. Night Shyamalan movies. In a nutshell: This one is worth watching. Two things fascinated me the most:

1. Josh Hartnett was incredible in this movie. The way they shot the film was pretty great too, lots of close ups so you could see Josh acting with just his facial expressions. If the idea was for the viewer to feel the awkwardness of many of the scenes, it’s an A+. Since we’re talking about acting, the entire cast was great but the other stand out was the actress playing the daughter. Her name is Ariel Donoghue. Just incredible the way she came off as a normal teen over the moon about a music star (the music super star was played by Saleka Night– M. Night’s real-life daughter by the way, who also did an outstanding job). Saleka’s role leads to the second most impressive part of the movie…
2. The plot of the movie revolves around Josh Hartnett and his daughter attending the concert of a super star (Think: Taylor Swift level). You’d think the actual concert would be kind of an afterthought since the movie is about Josh’s character but you’d be wrong! Just producing a stadium concert had to be a whole separate entity from the movie. Can you imagine trying to wrangle that many extras? It was pretty amazing with the original songs and how the audience (of mostly teen girls) sang along with Lady Raven, as any teen in real life would do at a concert like that. Very believable, and incredible to have all of that come off so realistically. As a comparison, it was nothing like the performance of Zack Attack, no offense Zack, which made it onto a Casey Kasem show? Come on.

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Bravo to the entire cast and crew. M. Night Shyamalan’s best two movies will always be The Sixth Sense and The Village but this one, while different than those blockbuster movies, was very good, too. Maybe you can rent it one day from Redbox, which I thought was completely out of business until I saw one today somewhere near Ocala, Florida. Who saw that twist coming!????

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-Out of the Wilderness