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Trapped Reviews

Luis Mandoki's movie Trapped is one of the most inept hostage thrillers I've ever seen.

Full Review | Dec 6, 2018

A sleazy, exploitative thriller that milks its child-in-danger premise for all it's worth.

Full Review | Dec 27, 2002

Brisk hack job.

Full Review | Oct 1, 2002

The movie is a negligible work of manipulation, an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Sep 26, 2002

Indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 23, 2002

Not really bad so much as distasteful: We need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 23, 2002

True to its title, it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 23, 2002

There is no pleasure in watching a child suffer. Just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 23, 2002

Feels like the faceless product of a Hollywood screenwriting computer program, one that provide everything but personality and a brain.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Sep 23, 2002

For a good chunk of its running time, Trapped is an effective and claustrophobic thriller.

Full Review | Sep 23, 2002

A tightly drawn, propulsive thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 23, 2002

Splashes its drama all over the screen, subjecting its audience and characters to action that feels not only manufactured, but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet strings.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 21, 2002

A reasonably efficient mechanism, but it offers few surprises and finds its stars slumming in territory they should have avoided.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2002

The title Trapped turns out to be a pretty fair description of how you feel while you're watching this ultra-manipulative thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2002

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