Background: Trap is a thriller/crime movie released august 2nd 2024, about a dad who is secretly a serial killer trying to escape from the police while at a concert with his daughter. The movie director was M. Night Shyamalan.with a budget of 30 million dollars.
Actors:
Josh Hartnett who plays Cooper
Saleka Night who plays Lady Raven
Alison Pill who plays Rachel
Ariel Donoghue who plays Riley
Kid Cudi who plays himself
Hayley Millisho plays dr Josephine Grant
Russ who plays Parker Wayne
Vannessa Smythe who plays the tour manager
Jonathan Langdon who plays the vendor
Plot
The movie starts with the dead named Cooper and his daughter Riley at a pop star named Lady Ravens concert. Cooper gets suspicious when he sees an unusual number of police present inside of the stadium. Cooper leaves Riley to use the bathroom for a second, but when he goes into the bathroom stall. We see him viewing live camera footage of a man trapped in a room yelling for help, then Cooper goes to buy some merch from one of the vendors and asks the vendor named Jamie why there are so many police present. Jamie then tells Cooper that the police are looking for a serial killer named the butcher. Because they found evidence that he was going to be at this concert tonight. So they trapped everyone inside the concert and did not let anyone leave without a severe police inspection.
Jamie then tells Cooper he needs to get in the back to get more shirts, and Cooper offers to go with him. Jamiee then buzzes them into an employee-only door with an employee card, and while Jamie is trying to get a box down, Cooper steals the card out of his pocket. Cooper then uses the card to access a back room full of policemen, where he steals a police radio so he can hear everything they’re saying. We then saw a cameo from Russ and Kid Cudi during the concert. After hearing on the police radio that they may be on to him. Cooper goes into one of the vendor’s kitchens and secretly throws glass bottles of liquid into the deep fryer, causing it to burst and harm an employee, directing the attention elsewhere. He then tries to escape to the roof, where he finds more police officers who question him, but he pretends to be one of the kitchen employees, stressed about what just happened, and claims he just needed some air.
He goes back to sit with Riley, and she’s a bit confused about his behavior. Riley gets super excited and says that Lady Raven is about to do her dreamer girl performance, where she brings someone from the crowd onto the stage. Cooper remembers that Jaime told him that the only way out without police is backstage, so Cooper secretly approaches Lady Raven’s uncle and tells him that his daughter just recovered from leukemia. The uncle ends up using his connections to get Riley on stage with Lady Raven. Riley is thrilled to dance on stage with Lady Raven, and Cooper is thrilled to be backstage. Cooper sees an fBI profiler scouting everyone out who he learns is good at her job, Cooper asks the employees Iheim and Riley can just leave out the back at the end of the concert and they say that he can, but then he realizes the search has gotten even more serious ad police are blocking the back door as well.
Cooper then sees Lady Raven after the concert and asks her if they can talk to her privately about his daughter. She says yes but while they are alone Cooper threatens her by showing her life footage of one of his victims revealing that he is the butcher and will unalive him with the click of a button if she does not tell everyone that she will give them a ride home in her private limousine and also if she even speaks a word about this he will also press the button. Lady Raven cooperates and takes them into her limousine with her and Riley is still completely oblivious thinking that this is just all Lady Raven being nice. Cooper tells the driver to just drop them off at a corner that is not where they live, but Lady Raven tells them that she wants to drop them off at their house and asks Riley for their address which she gets.
Lady Ravenn then goes to their house and meets Cooper’s wife and other kids who seem to be completely oblivious that their dad is the butcher. Lady Ravenn then pretends she wants to take a selfie with Riley’s phone and then grabs Cooper’s phone and runs into the bathroom with it, cooper is banging and screaming on the door. Lady Raven then opens his phone to the live footage of his victim and asks the victim to describe exactly where he is and how he remembered the house to look like, lady raven then goes on live and asks her followers if they can identify the house in the specific city that she’s about and tells them to call the police and get there immediately within a matter of minutes. Lady Raven then yells to coopers family through the door that cooper is the butcher. She texts her limo driver to call the police and hears Cooper locking his family upstairs in a room before he comes down and gets her.
When Cooper looks at his phone minutes later after Lady Raven went live he sees that his victim is no longer there and is rescued. The police show up but Cooper escapes through a secret tunnel and disguises himself as a swat team member as he takes a limo and drives away, he manages to capture Lady Raven with her but while they are at a stop she manages to roll down the window down and asks her fans for help the police show up and lady raven escapes but so does cooper and gets away, cooper then goes home and finds his wife Rachel who is horrified to see him, she confesses that she suspected that the cooper was the butcher and left clues for the police to find him.
Cooper then threatens to unalive her and then himself, but Rachel convinces him to eat a slice of Riley’s pie with her just one last time, as Cooper expresses how angry he is at his wife for telling on him because he can’t see his kids grow up anymore, he realizes that Rachel put stuff in the pie the same stuff that he uses on his victims to make them loopy and hallucinates his mother telling him how proud she is that he is finally feeling real emotion. He is then zapped and captured by the FBI and as he walks out of the house in handcuffs he insists that he must adjust Riley’s bike one last time, they allow him to do so but we see him in the back of a police car using a piece from the bike that he secretly stole to uncuff himself, cooper then lets out a sinister laugh and the movie ends.
My opinion: I thought this movie was kind of dumb in my opinion because I felt like if this was a real-life situation the cops would have gotten the butcher way faster because they had all the security cameras and police. Another thing I didn’t like was how I felt like the whole movie was just a concert for Lady Raven the singer in the movie, in the movie she can sing but she can’t act I feel like she just felt so bland, and did not show any emotion in my opinion and for the role in this movie she should’ve showed a lot of emotion but she didn’t which is why I didn’t like it a lot. This is my opinion of the movie Trap and what I thought about it.