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List Price: $9.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 36249
Released: December 24, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A wealthy doctor, his wife, and their daughter are simultaneously kidnapped by a group of serial kidnappers seeking a large ransom; things start to go wrong when the daughter turns out to be asthmatic.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-JUL-2007
Media Type: DVD
Description of Trapped:
Kevin Bacon and Charlize Theron square off in a smarter-than-average kidnapping thriller. Joe (Bacon), Cheryl (Courtney Love), and Marvin (Pruitt Taylor Vince) are a kidnapping team with the perfect plan. Perfect, that is, until they pick on the wrong wholesome but incredibly feisty young family. There's the plot, and boom--you're off. Though it certainly hits all the right buttons, Trapped is far from a by-the-numbers suspense movie. There are a few genuinely surprising plot twists, and while many movies dull their villains' edges by cartoonishly over- or underplaying their evil, Trapped is refreshingly unafraid to make Joe realistically, skin-crawlingly vile. Even our heroes turn out to have surprising sadistic streaks. Toward the end, the movie takes a sharp right turn toward the ludicrous, with nearly every major character making at least one completely illogical decision, but by that point you're already strapped in, so you may as well just sit back and enjoy. --Ali Davis
Trapped Reviews:
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2009-09-17 - Kevin Bacon (Death Sentence) is one of my favorite horror / thriller / suspense actors. Whether playing the victim (Friday The 13th), the hero (Tremors, Stir Of Echoes), or the bad guy (The River Wild, Wild Things, Hollow Man), Bacon is superb. In TRAPPED, he gets another chance to be the bad guy as Joe, the cruel leader of a trio of nefarious kidnappers, along w/ Courtney Love and Pruitt Taylor Vince (Jacob's Ladder, Captivity). Charlize Theron (Monster), Stuart Townsend, and Dakota Fanning (War Of The Worlds) play the targeted family. The first two thirds of the movie are tense and believable, while the last act veers hopelessly off into fantasy / action-land, complete w/ car chases, explosions, and aerobatics! Still, TRAPPED is fun to watch, Ms. Theron is hot enough to melt lead, and the Bacon-factor is high...
Tightly Plotted Thriller
2009-04-19 - Great book! Faithfully adapted to the screen! Fine performances by Kevin Bacon, Charlize Theron and Dakota Fanning.
Good movie, Book better
2009-03-17 - I've seen the movie, and I liked it... But, I recently read the book. Now the movie makes more sense. THe book is by Greg Iles- and no, I'm not going to tell you how and where it helps, read it and find out.
okay flick
2008-08-14 - I hadn't heard of this movie till I did a search for hottie Stuart Townsend. He's not bad in this film, but Kevin Bacon turned out to be hotter. He was really good and so was Charlize Theron. This was not your typical kidnap/ransom movie, and it had a pretty cool ending.
LUIS MANDOKI, OPUS 8 
2008-06-06 - ** 2002. Based on Greg Iles's 24 Hours and directed by Luis Mandoki. Kevin Bacon's family kidnaps the daughter of the Jennings. Very bad movie of the Mexican director who'll give us, two years later, the masterpiece Innocent Voices though. I wonder whether Luis Mandoki could do better with the material he had to work with. We never feel that the Jennings family is really in danger and the final scene on the highway is rather ridiculous, the extras gently walking between the cars while there are a shootout and a plane/truck collision in front of them. Shame. Already forgotten.
