The outrageousness of Kevin Bacon's performance combined with Luis Mandoki's CSI-style direction makes you wonder whether this kidnapping movie was meant to be some sort of spoof, but let's hope not for the sake of the straight and effective work by Charlize Theron and little Dakota Fanning. They both treat the material with the seriousness that it probably should have been also by the filmmakers. Trapped has unattractive lighting and cinematography, but behind the bumpy direction and sometimes borderline parodic scenes, the middle part reveals an interesting human story which does warrant some of the suspense the filmmakers aimed for. That is until we're left with a chaotic ending marred by just about every thriller cliché imaginable. More or less a wasted opportunity.
Review of Trapped
