M Night Shyamalan's latest blockbuster Trap has landed a soft Rotten Tomatoes score after receiving mixed reviews.
The film stars Josh Hartnett and Ariel Donoghue as a father and daughter attending a pop concert. The concert, featuring Saleka Shyamalan as Lady Raven, turns out to be a police operation to capture a serial killer.
The thriller arrived in US cinemas today (August 2), and is set to land in the UK on Friday, August 9.
Reviews have now made their way to the review aggregator site, with the film's score currently sitting at 49% from 72 reviews.
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Many critics have praised the film's "clever set-up", as well as Harnett's "well-calibrated" performance. However, others were left disappointed by its "far-fetched" premise and lack of "depth".
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Here's what some of them have to say:
The Wrap
"Trap doesn't have the depth of Shyamalan's most important films or the theatricality of his most memorably weird experiments. But it's one of his best thrillers."
Vanity Fair
"Shyamalan has built a solid foundation, as he tends to do: clever set-up, appealing lead actor, and an interesting (and quite relevant) cultural milieu. But fairly quickly, Trap's sleek design peels away and we see the shoddy engineering it's been hiding."
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"Asking an audience to go with something that is this fundamentally far-fetched borders on an insult. More to the point: It's not fun."
The Guardian
"Trap is a thriller that incorrectly thinks it's fiendishly smart. Maybe if it was more aware of how stupid it actually is, it might have been a lot more fun."
The Observer
"As expected, there are borderline ridiculous twists as likely to provoke laughs as gasps, but while some recent M. Night joints have left me wondering whether or not the storyteller is in on the joke, this time he definitely knows what he's doing."
The Daily Beast
"As a pulpy game of cat-and-mouse, however, it provides enough thrills to compensate for its illogicalities, and in Josh Harnett, it boasts a star adept at locating the fiendishness in fatherhood."
Trap will be released in UK cinemas on August 9.
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