Wonderful character development!

The greatest movie ever made..!

Strong and Moving!

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Trapped is directed by Luis Mandoki and written by Greg Iles. It stars Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Pruitt Taylor Vince and Dakota Fanning. Music is by John Ottman and cinematography is by Frederick Elmes.Based on Iles' book 24 Hours, Trapped aspires to be a potent kidnap thriller, an attempt to use the kidnapping of a young girl as some sort of edge of the seat entertainment, sadly it's poorly constructed and quite frankly ill advised.A fine cast has assembled for the picture, but nobody distinguishes themselves as they try to make the generic and idiotic material work. On the atmosphere side of the fence things aren't half bad, there's a grim and grubby feel to proceedings, but Mandoki consistently ruins each passage of promise with cack-handed convolutions, which when the core plot device is a dumb drug set-up, only makes the feeble efforts of making a twisty thriller even more laughable. The crowning glory of the latter being the finale, which is ludicrous. 2/10 with young Fanning the only one coming out of it with any credit.

One of the worst movies I've seen.A stupid story and the same typical things for a case of kidnapping.Just because Charlize Theron has a role here, the producers have tried to use her sex-appeal and she will be involved in some hot scenes, but more as a teasing because, well, somehow the kidnapper has a weak part.One of the most shocking aspects of this film is the presence of a lethargic father at the beginning, but as the events are progressing he is becoming even more capable than James Bond.And from this point you can imagine what will happen with the 'poor' kidnappers.

Because I surely did not. For starters, the family, you have an Irish man with fairly dark hair, a blonde magazine model? woman, with an intellectual young blonde daughter. That at first to me seemed unrealistic, but later on the film it was just ridiculous. I craved more information on these characters, because they seemed interesting enough, but all I was given was a bunch of strangers thrown into a pot of boiling nonsense. Don't get me wrong though, these actors are terrific with the right role, this was just supposed to be a T.V movie with actors and actresses we had never heard of. It was a lazy, terror-less film about something that people make movies about, it seems every day. They could have had a twist or two, maybe even a little bit of suspense, but no. It was boring, I was watching this film thinking to myself what I would have done if I was in that situation. Overall, the only part I actually enjoyed was when the woman got let out of the boot of the car and just ran away, I had to giggle at that.

I had seen this movie a couple of years ago and thought it was good. I decided to buy it a few months back and finally got round to watching it last week. A friend wanted to watch something and had not seen this film before.I felt extremely pleased that I had purchased this film, as it had delivered more than anticipated. I actually thought it was even better on the second viewing.The Performance of Charlize Theron was amazing and incredibly believable, the terror on her face and the fear of what may happen to her daughter. Kevin Bacon was almost equally as good as the sleazy kidnapper with a hidden agenda. Dakota Fanning put in decent performance as the kidnapped child as did Pruitt Taylor Vince as Bacon's mentally challenged accomplice. Stuart Towsend performed okay as Theron's husband and Courtney Love was decent in her role considering she is not really an actress.Essentially though it is Theron and Bacon that dominate this film with towering performances that really cement their reputations as excellent actors. I found the tension at times unbearable and it really keeps you on the edge of your seat. The ending is bit ludicrous and over the top, but overall on reflection the movie really was entertaining, well acted and tense. I think this is a movie I will want to watch many times. Everyone I know who has seen it agrees that this is an excellent thriller, and having seen Red Eye yesterday and other similar movies such as Don't Say a Word, and Cellular I can honestly say I believe Trapped to be superior to those mentioned and one of the better examples of this type of thriller. Why do film studios or directors insist on spoiling these types of films with over the top action packed endings though? 7/10