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Trapped-An Acceptable Thriller
Recently, I bought Trapped on DVD and enjoyed it. The film featured some strong performances and intensity, but as some of you know did horribly in the box-office. I was really eager to see this film because I almost had a chance of seeing it in theatres, but you know there was a huge difficulty with that.
Anyway, Trapped is based on the novel: 24 Hours, by Greg Iles. To be honest, I didn't read the book so I can't give you a great comparison but from seeing the movie, which was good I can bet the book would be even better.
The plot of the film is excellent, with a well conceived/concocted plan, devised by Kevin Bacon and Courtney Love, who are the villans so to speak in the film. Charlize Theron and Stuart Townsend are a happily married couple and have a daughter. Soon, Kevin Bacon's plan goes into action and he kidnaps her daughter but there's much more to the kidnapping than you think, for it's a kidnapping for ransom. Over a 24 hour
period the couple's money is being extorted into Bacon's and Love's hands. After that period is over the child will be relinquished back into the family's hands. So, the film had a great plot, just perhaps there needs to be a few more developments.
The press didn't screen the movie for reviews, and the film duration in theatres was only for about two weeks, which is sorry
to say very pitiful, but all in all I liked this film and reading
the book would be something I'd like to try. Trapped is rated R for Violence, Language and Sexual Content. There is a thrilling action sequence at the end of the film, which I personally enjoyed. There is actually some excessive profanity, not throughout the film but at some certain parts, as for the sexuality it's fairly brief and not explicit. There isn't any nudity.
Trapped, an interesting thriller, with a plot but just didn't do well enough to be a great film in the eyes of many. Own it today on Video and DVD.

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BRINGING HOME THE BACON
TRAPPED is based on Greg Iles' incredibly suspenseful novel, 24 HOURS. Iles himself did the screenplay, so at least the movie tries to stick the book as much as possible. There are significant alterations Iles did in bringing this book to the screen, and there are significant absences such as the involvement of other kidnap victims, that would have made the film a lot more exciting, I think. But overall, its a commendable translation to the big screen.
Kevin Bacon as Joe starts out well in his role, but the time the movie comes to its exciting climax, he seems uninvolved, and uses a jittery nervous exterior that seemingly comes from nowhere.
Charlize Theron who has wonderful expressive eyes also starts out very strong; there are moments though when she seems lost in direction; she underplays key scenes and overplays some, too. It's a good performance overall; but I think more would have been better.
Dakota Fanning as Abby is remarkable. She really seems to be a frightened little girl, without all the posturing and cutesiness that could have sabotaged her character.
When I read the book, I could just see someone like Courtney Love playing Cheryl. Unfortunately, in the transition to screen, her character lost a great deal. In the book, she's much more "fleshed out" (no pun intended), and she gets lost in the finale, whereas in the book she was a pivotal figure. Love's performance is restrained and effective, however.
Tyler Pruitt Vance's Marvin is well done, although he telegraphs his "mental state" too heavily.
The film's biggest weakness is Stuart Townsend. His performance is so wooden and staged, he seems like a high schooler in a senior class play. A stronger actor here would have made the family's plight a little more emotional.
The director has a strange attachment to mirrors, and although it is initially interesting, its overuse diminishes Bacon and Theron's intensity.
But, TRAPPED is a well-paced and involving thriller, and the finale on the interstate is impressive and very close to the finale in the book.
As for the extras, the deleted scenes are ephemeral; I can see why they took them out. The alternate ending is laughable, because we don't know what in the world is really going on.

RECOMMENDED.

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GREAT
With Kevin Bacon being one of my favorite actors and Charlize
Thron being a really talented up and coming actress not to mention how hot she is.Kevin Bacon goes to back to what he does
best and that is play the villan,and he is the villan with that
twisted grin,calm voice,and those killer tatoo's he play's his
best and slimiest villan since Sleepers and River Wild.Now to
the movie this as to be without a doubt the best and most enter-
taining kidnapper movie since Ransom.This movie has it all great
dialogue,character developement,action,and a twist that you really don't see coming.See this movie with in the first 8 -10
minutes of the movie you'll be drawn in to the best movie of it's
genre in recent years.Dont let the credit of the movie(and Kevin
Bacon)fool you he has more screen time in this than Wild Things
were his name is mentioned first in the credits.