The wife put her own daughter and numerous other people's lives in danger unnecessarily because she didn't just call the Police to arrest her husband at home from the get-go.
@@anaalicia5029Have you seen Resident Evil The Final Chapter by any chance? This movie reminded me of that. It's by far the worst movie I have ever seen in my life.
I’ve got a few (in no particular order): - It’s established the wife suspected him of being the Butcher and she was the one that left the receipt for the concert at one of his planning houses so the cops could trap him. WHY DOESNT SHE JUST CALL THE COPS ANONYMOUSLY AND HAVE THEM PICK HIM UP FOR QUESTIONING???) Instead she puts her daughter and 30,000 people in danger at a concert - minor one, but still wtf..Cooper comes back to house to confront wife and for no reason at all just takes his shirt off and sits there lol - Lady Raven is in the car with Cooper (in his garage) and she tries to get in his head by yelling at him,pretending to be Cooper’s mother who abused him. We know that the mother abused him, how does she know? The FBI profiler sat down and reviewed the case with the star of the concert?? 😅 There’s probably 100 more
There are at least a dozen more improbabilities. It’s what makes this movie a PARODY of the classic thrillers. m Knight tells us right at the BEGINNING the concept is preposterous and expects us to go along with it. It is a hilarious film for those of us who can. Consider yourself insulted.
You know Adam hates a movie when he does a review...then a spoiler review...THEN a Top 10 Dumbest Things video before the movie has even been out for a week
@@SENATORPAIN1it really was riveting. I haven't seen a movie this bad, this stupid, this nonsensical in a really long time. It truly has to be seen. M. Knight has really outdone himself.
Seriously? Do you know how long a limo is? He was at the front. Raven was at the back. She got out of the limo on one side telling people to call the police. Cooper gets out on the opposite side, while the crowd is creating a natural diversion and cover, so he can slip away. It’s a very basic espionage tactic.
Bro they were looking at the celebrity he had time to change, set the prop driver up, and stand in the crowd, since she said absolutely nothing when she got out the car..
Calling Shyamalan "visionary" at this point should be a crime punishable by imprisonment. This movie was so bad that I literally could not believe that it made it to theatre's.
I haven't finished the video yet, but a dumb moment for me was when Cooper sabotaged the french fry station in the kitchen and nobody saw him come and go despite police seemingly surveying everything with cameras at all times. That and of course the limo escape was absurd
They couldn't figure out how he could get behind the counter without being seen so they just cut to a shot of his hand turning the temperature, then suddenly it's all done and he's back in front of the counter 😂😂😂😂 unreal
His wife was the one who gave him up but they never asked her for a pic which was all over the living room. Why did they have to catch him at a concert which could cause hostages? That
About the premise, let’s not forget that the wife intentionally led them to the concert-which she knew he was going to attend WITH THEIR DAUGHTER. What’s the plan there? Of all the damn hints she could have dropped, she chose both the most convoluted and the most dangerous possible… that was probably the most idiotic plot point of the whole movie to me (and there’s serious competition lmao). Anyway, great video 😂
You're the only person that I trust and respect with reviews now. It's nice to finally see someone who actually calls out why this movie is so terrible. Too many fans of Shyamalan are too scared to say how they feel and can only say "this movie was FUN... I had FUN!"
So many ridiculous moments that make no sense just to move the plot forward.. One of the worst is when he goes to the roof and asks the swat guy "what's up with the FBI lady running the show?" Sway guy says, " She the best FBI profiler, she's thought of everything!" This would NEVER happen. The movie was about 40 moments just like that lmfao
And the fact that the roof was empty, swat guy came from behind the support beam like he was hiding, and then all of the sudden there's 15+ swat on the roof.
Thx Adam! I need more validation on how freakin moronic this movie is. Plz do #11 - #20! Some honorable mentions (or use them for 11 -20 in ur next vid hehe): • Why the hell did Coop bring her into his wife’s car and before they even get out of the garage he lets her get out and walk away, why, bcuz his family was standing there?? I’m sure they would have moved if he started to drive forward. He was going to kill his wife anyway, so why would he care if he ran her over? • When he handcuffs Lady Nepo to the plastic tube on the limo door and he stops and lets a crowd surround the limo…uhhh why?? And why not just plow through them if they are in the way?? • Why did the cops open fire on an UNKNOWN target in the driver seat, which ended up being a pile of clothes? Authorities are supposed to confirm the target before taking shots. there are soooo many more I could go on and on…and on 🤦🏻♂️
Wouldn’t the receipt have their seat number and row on it? or maybe it would show that he paid probably $1K for 2 tickets so they should know he’d be sitting on the floor? If not then it would at least show the date and time he purchased the tickets assuming it was in person since he has a paper receipt and they would just go access the security footage and see who purchased tickets at that exact time? I don’t know whatever
I thought this. He very specifically spoke to his daughter about seat location. Even if the feds only found a receipt, they could have traced that to the ticket.
My favourite is his escape from the car near the end. Lady Gaga... er Raven has managed somehow to break the bit she was handcuffed to and get out. The car is completely surrounded, several deep, by her fans crowded right up against it. Then the police arrive and there are so many fans that they have to move them away. Then they shoot through the window at the driver. But it isn't the driver. It's just a helmet propped up on the driver's seat. Somehow Cooper has managed to change clothes, set up a dummy and get out of the car and walk away without a single person noticing him do it - not the fans who surrounded the car, not the police who surrounded the car, NO-ONE.
@@AT-sd9qq This would be ridiculous, but he could have rigged a car to start and pipe the exhaust into that room, assuming it was relatively air tight. it's supposed to be an abandoned house anyway.
I thought FOR SURE the hostage would have been someone super important to her. Her dad, her fiance/boyfriend, anything. THAT would have made more sense that she would just shut up. Otherwise it could be staged footage, so what? I'd scream the second he showed me that, or at a minimum, when walking past all the swat. ALONE.
12:00 To be clear, he didn't have a shirt on. He would have been cuffed without a shirt. Oh wait though, now there's nowhere to hide the bike spoke. So I guess we have to put his shirt back on, off screen, before cuffing him... Award winning writing.
It was one of the 4-5 random possibilities that the police had from security cameras at various scenes. The 60 year old African American, 20 year old Asian, 40 year old white guy with bird tattoo. I mean that itself is ridiculous and they provide no explanation for why there were so many different type of suspects. On top of that, his tattoo is like 1 inch by 1 inch so HTF did a security camera pick that up? AND on top of that, lol, he covers it with one of the concert wristbands as if the cops would never think to look under it. The amusing thing is that as I was watching it and trying to guess the twist, i came up with a bunch of theories/guesses that would have been much better (honestly they couldn't be worse than the actual plot: Theory 1) There was more than 1 butcher (1 for each kill, which would explain all the wildly different profiles) and they were all going to be at the concert for some final showdown against each other Theory 2) Someone was poisoning the concert goers, there were 2 separate girls who got sick, 1 that he pushed down the stairs and the other that he helped backstage Theory 3) Lady Raven was the head of some serial killer sect/cult and she had arranged for all the butchers to be at the concert and that's why she went with him to the house and wasn't afraid and she would reveal that he was the winner or gained membership to this secret society to him. That would be the only reason for all the dumb decisions
It turns out, based on the facts from the movie, we can say that the reviewer watched the film "so carefully" that his opinion is illegitimate. And all his jokes in context are a "good face against a bad game". And the increased emotionality about the fact that Cooper "did not enter the stall" makes the reviewer look stupid) It was not a very smart move from the person who put the word in the title "Dumbest" about movie he's not seen :D Maybe you should watch the movie first, and many of the plot holes will disappear by themselves? ;)
You are great! I used to love Chris Stuckman with his hilariousity videos, but he is so insecure about anyone in the world ever giving him an honest critique on his little film, he kisses everyones a$$. He has zero self respect because he doesnt give honest reviews; he panders and kisses butt.
ANNNND, by the way……when they tazzed him, his shirt was off. Then, seconds later, apparently they stopped to let him put his shirt (that was in the dining room) back on, before they take him out of the house……WHY?! Well, where else could he have hid the fricken spoke of the bike, but up his sleeve?!!! GAAAAAHHHH!!!!! 😡🤬
@@Leonardo-ub8qb with no detailed puctures, just saw a tattoo with some animal. It possible when you open a door and camera not see your face, not goof at all
@@Leonardo-ub8qb they have pictures of many people around crime scene from curvailence and checking possible suspects during the concert as we saw in Trap clearly)
letting hold that bicycle for so long was infuriating. this man just fillet'd members of the public and gouged the eyes out of a SWAT team member. the police arent too smart IRL but this was scooby doo level foolish
The fact that the police didn't have lethal backup for when the tasers failed was infuriating. He would have been filled with bullets the second the taser didn't work (assuming they weren't crossing each other with gunfire) and definitely after he gouged that guys eyes out.
Also… the police found „one of his hiding places“… he’s a firefighter, is his wife RICH?! Why do all serial killers have tons of properties/rental places without a credit card and/or names on papers somewhere?
lol I can’t argue with any of your points, but he definitely went into a bathroom stall. And I also was questioning the asthma thing. Driving me nuts. Only thing I can think of is bc she can understand him suffocating his victim bc she knows what it’s like not to be able to breath? Lol
That was a pointless red herring, and so was Lady Raven’s male guest singer flirting and romantically gesturing to the killer. I thought the killer would pretend to be into him to make his escape. Instead, it just happened and was immediately forgotten.
Adam I totally agree with your assessment about this director. All of his movies are riddled with terrible plot holes. But the comment about aliens going to a planet that’s made up primarily of what kills them totally cracked me up.😂 lol I laughed my ass off. I never thought of that. Damn so on point and funny
In the same scene where we learn that Lady Raven has asthma, we are also told that the black blonde guy is lactose intollerant. Why? Did Shyamalan had to fill a DEI quota for allergic people?
I pretty sure that when they show the scene where Cooper noticing Raven has asthma, they want us to make assumptions about what he planning on doing but change his mind. Like for an example, sneak into Raven's dressing room sabotage her inhaler and when she needs to use it, it doesn't work and she would have an asthma attack on stage and pass out which would possible cause mass panic and hysterical and allow him to sip away in the confusion. Similar to the scene where he thought about pulling the fire alarm but change his mind.
When you think about it if the cops were tipped off that a serial killer was going to this gig the concert would get called off.because surely the first thought would be he might try and kill the star.
The stupidest thing about the underground tunnel in his house is the fact that just 5 minutes earlier he admits he didn't consider his family could escape from his kid's room because he "always kept the 2 lives separate" - then why did you DIG A TUNNEL UNDERGROUND TO YOUR NEIGHBOUR'S YARD?!
Trap sounds like this is just a vehicle to give the director's daughter a career. I never forget how he cast Ron Howard's daughter in a few of his movies. Nepotism.
Not as bad as F.F Coppolla. Nicholas Cage and Jason Schwartzman are his nephews. Talia Shire is his sister and of course Sofia Coppolla is his daughter.
That's the exact 1st thing that came to my mind once he started talking to the t-shirt seller...this HAS to be a set up by feeding him all this information. But nope, it really was as moronic as it seemed.
Hilarious as always Adam. I think we need some special features on movies nowadays where the director sits down and explains just what the hell they were thinking on some of these plot points. Or even better a trial of some kind where a jury can put a stop to some of these obnoxious antics. It would be a nice dialogue.
The biggest plot twist in Hollywood is how anyone srill thinks M should be making movies. He has one sort of interesting movie a thousand years ago and bombed repeatedly since.
Oh, I thought we were going to find out the daughter was the serial killer. Why else would they stage this concert? Why would they think a middle-aged man would care?
She was traveling to a concert from another city, and returning after the concert to relax at the hotel. People start inventing holes where there are none))
Oh man you didn't even get to the best 1. Damn this gonna be long. From the start of the movie I was waiting for 1 answer How Did The Police Know He Was At The Concert. We only got the full answer at the end of the movie. The wife suspected him of being The Butcher and followed him. He went To his safe house a place to be alone, plan and think on his crimes but was still just an empty house. Wife found nothing so then left an article of his clothing which had a receipt for the concert tickets that how they know where he was going and that it was a man. Than the wife called the police and told them the house was being used by The Butcher and the police just believed her and that's how we got the sting operation?????? WHAT????? Perfect end to the movie
Imagine this movie directed by Jonathan Demme. A good twist would’ve been to have the whole story in the venue, they catch and kill a serial killer “. In the end “the butcher” is actually revealed to be the t-shirt guy Jamie.
So I watched this movie Friday. I agree with every point you've made. All I can say is that immediately after watching the movie all I could think was, that there were that many rewrites during production to change the direction of the movie, that the final cut inevitably left too many loose end unanswered unfinished questions. I'm with you on this one, I think in the original draft the lead investigator woman was there to purposely feed josh information and lead him like a rat through a trap. Other mind boggling cuts seem to be the utilisation of discovering lady raven uses an inhaler. And many many more. Oh and can someone explain why josh took his top off towards the end of the movie?? Was it just a case of 'hey....why not...lets see josh tazerd while hes bare chested'?? Shyamalan's next biggest twist is that he actually makes a decent movie.
Adam, you are hilarious!!! Glad I came across this!...now I don't feel bad not being able to watch this movie, lol! And,...I have seen David Fincher's The Game...very good movie!
Love “The Game;” classic flick. Maybe that will be a positive from this disaster of a movie… people seeing this review to laugh at it again might be inspired to go watch Fincher’s “The Game!”
The T-Shirt guy topped them all. And then him giving out the FBI password to a total stranger after a few minutes !!! (great video and just subscribed)
You’re totally right, Trap has a preposterous concept. That’s your tip off right there as to what M Night is doing with his movie. There are a million improbabilities, tongue in cheek dialogue, over the top performances, and a hilarious tone throughout. Why are you people taking this film SERIOUSLY?! M Night says it’s intended to be a funny, playful film in the serial killer thriller genre. Hartnett says Night thought some of the scenes hilarious as he shot them. And that playing a monster that the audience incredibly roots for was a huge challenge walking a line between drama and comedy. My favorite scene comes near the end. Oh my dear now I’m going to have to kill you and then myself, you know, the average way. And I am sooo angry with you because now I can’t watch my kids grow up. Rachel: well, before you chop me up into pieces, let’s sit down and have a piece of pie, for old times sake. So Cooper lays down the cleaver and takes off his shirt. Can’t get blood all over it, you know. Then the swing for the bleachers King Kong impression (Hartnett is f***ing brilliant here) where he lurches and lunges towards the mommy hallucination, wild-eyed and emotional, gouging out a SWAT guy’s eyes after being tased 4,382 times. I mean, COME ON, folks, this is a FUN movie. I will agree with some tho that Saleka is miscast for the speaking part. While she’s great giving a Swiftie-esque concert, she should never have been given a significant role offstage. I don’t know how else Night could have written the character but thankfully her cringeworthy performance is overcome by Hartnett and Pill giving terrific ones. If you guys watch the movie with a different perspective, I think you’ll see this is def one of Night’s best. He TOLD us it was going to be different and that there’d be NO twist. But a lot of people came into the movie with tired and stale expectations and so are disappointed that it’s not meeting them. Let’s count YOUR stupids in this video. 1. There are 12 victims in 7 years and Cooper is IN the stall. He’s getting his butcher kicks watching #13. Obsessive. 2. Security? What a nit pick. There are f***ing SWAT teams all around her. Her manager tells them the guys okay bcuz his daughter had leukemia and they want to treat them. 3. The Tunnel is part of the joke! The entrance is blocked by canned goods on the shelves. He also has his bag stashed in a hidden cubby hole in the garage. And Cooper is in a SWAT uniform when he tells the driver that he’ll take it from here. 4. The movie does not end with Cooper freeing himself in the van. Did you watch the credits? Jamie makes a hilarious appearance. And when did you ever see a police van equipped with cameras INSIDE? The guards letting Cooper lovingly pick up his little boy’s bike is another hysterical improbability in the movie. If you’ve been taking the movie seriously, you’ll have missed the comic aspect of this. (PS Night says he deleted scenes to fit the 2-hour limit. I’m assuming the inhaler bit was one that followed. Again, this nit pick didn’t bother me at all.) 5. Jamie’s role 😂 Everything you point out is an improbability that builds the comedy. “I can tell you’re a father that has family values.” 😆 Oh, you’re a firefighter, you’re on our side. Cooper hands back the box tool: “Here, we wouldn’t want you to cut yourself.” 😆 Jamie is a bumbling serial killer junkie, tickled to tell this charming stranger all about the sting. His whole riff is hilarious. 6. Dr Grant has told the cops the Unsub knows he’s trapped but will not panic. He’ll cause distractions. Push the girl down the stairs, blow up the fryer, contemplate pulling the fire alarm until he hears Grant mention the fire alarm option. About the surveillance cameras. We know there are 20,000 people in the arena, 3,000 of them men. What the profiler knows: he’s a man. Maybe white maybe black maybe old maybe middle aged with some sort of animal tattoo on him. So what will the cameras show? 🤦♀️ 7. Cooper has mommy issues. We see this when he’s washing his hands. (OCD flag) We see the hallucination a couple more times. Lady Raven explains his psychopathy to his family sitting around the table of snacks and we also know he has OCD. (He straightens the towel, he tries to adjust the tennis racquet, he folds his shirt neatly on the table (so it won’t get blood on it). Near the end he hallucinates Dr Grant as mommy, precipitating his downfall. 8. Cooper holds Lady Raven emotionally hostage by threatening to kill Spencer if she calls out. (Another brilliant bit of acting by Hartnett, “ Catch me. Kill him. Catch me, kill him. With that outrageous smile 😅) We know from her stage speech that she is a bleeding heart. She’s not going to risk his life. 9. The conceit is that the psychopath has a soft side he’s struggling with. We have to buy in to his split personality. He tells Riley not to let people fool her ( this from the biggest con artist in town). He is protective and affectionate with Riley. In one scene he calls out to Logan to finish the science project and to Rachel not to let the water heater guy rip her off. In the car he muses, I meant to keep both lenses separate, not to ever let them touch. The butcher is cracking. People are not whole, they’re in pieces. So we see the story pivot. Just like Cooper. The killer thriller part splits into the psychologically tender part. And swings back again. Fool me twice…😂 10. Everything you take as preposterous is INTENTIONAL. How did you not “get it”? Imagine the absurdity, hunting for a serial killer treating his oblivious daughter to a pop concert! Ludicrous! Hilarious! 10.5. Your voice is 😬 Take it down a notch. Or are we supposed to see the outrage as a preposterous put on….
I am glad you are flaming this film because too many people give people like M Night a pass for his crappy film making and writing. Like I cant believe some fans have seriously been suggesting that M Night should get praise because he brought josh harnett back. LIke he was litterally in Black Mirror and Oppenheimer yall. he wasnt gone that long. The guy litterally made a film to scam his audience into listening to his daughters music and im supposed to be grateful?
Nobody forces you to watch this movie and no one forces you to be grateful for anything. Even in the trailer they wrote a warning line “In the world of M.Night Shyamalan”, so they hope that the characters in this film will act as we are usually used to - naively)
As a writer, the second I saw them make Lady Raven the protagonist and completely ignore any attempts for Riley to find out and solve the secret herself, I immediately knew why this movie was made. From that moment on… booty cheeks.
I've been 100's of concerts. The headliner doesn't have 3-4 intermissions for set changes. Maybe 1 for an encore. His daughter would have never left her seat for any reason.
Add this one. How come there are hundreds of people in the halls while the concert is going on? And you know this because the dad excuses himself multiple of times while his daughter stays to watch. And the concert is visibly packed. If you’ve ever been at a concert, the only people in the hallways are the ones going to the bathroom or getting something to eat. But in this film, it looks like the concert is over and everyone’s leaving, every time the dad leaves his daughter. WTF!?
If you watched the movie, you would notice that they dismantled and put up other sets before the next songs. This was stated directly and clearly in the film.
@strikebreakings only once did they say the dismantling thing (which is dumb also, just say it was an intermission??) . Every other time the concert was still ongoing and he had left his daughter there.
After Butcher kidnapped Lady Raven with putting his hand on her shoulder and put her in the car, he sees his family in front of the car and Buthcer went hypnotized or sth, and Lady Raven quietly escapes from the car. what was that? (By the way they showed the Andy Dufresne tunnel, in the closet behind some things)
Please review "Blink Twice ". It looks from the trailers like two women, in addition to Channing Tatum, are the leads. However, the women look very unattractive. You'll have to tell us if this is part of the plot.
So I suspect that the raven going to the house was part of a premise like The Game. It would be a second act where cooper believes he’s gotten away and that this raven girl is clueless to everything basically delivering him home and even performing for his daughter. Think about the entire movie playing out without the scene where cooper shows raven the kid on his phone. This would have made it a twist but M Night wanted his daughter to be seen as braver to the audience with no gap in their thinking, even if that nativity was part of a twist. Nepotism and its impacts on directorial decisions and m nights clear biases, ruined this movie.
I never thought of that, Adam! That would've been a really cool M. Night twist. If Josh Hartnett was following the "trap" exactly how they wanted him to all along.
My question is very simple, almost dumb: Why would he take his daughter to any concert in the first place? Usually it’s the Moms that take their daughters to a pop concert. He could have easily given the tickets to his daughter and said “Here. This is more your mom’s cup of tea than mine. And besides, I have some pressing business to take care of that night. Love ya have fun!”
I was saying the same thing. How are you gonna have a sting and you dont have description on what the killer looks like? Even if they do arrest Josh Harnett... What proof do they have that he's the killer?
They have rough description of possible person of interest from crime scene surveillance and they wanted to catch him at action on concert. Yes, the actions of the wife and the police are morally questionable. The movie tells us that Cooper isn't the only bad guy here ;)
@@Str52849Wow you are such a homer the levels you are going to defend this trash 😂. All of those descriptions ranged all over the place so they had nothing real to go on.. and you keep saying in action... In action of doing WHAT!? Listening to music? Your logic makes no sense
Perhaps lady raven went to the house because she figured no one would believe her despite all the witnesses and camera evidence. To be fair, going by this movie’s logic he would’ve gotten away while killing the hostage. Ending with Lady Raven becoming a suspect would have made for an amusing ending to be sure. Remember, Cooper is a magician.
Thank you for saving me $22. I saw your original video and decided to give it a hard pass based on that. My son later confirmed that I made the right decision in sitting this one out.
Things I noticed that struck me: - He demands Lady Raven drive him in her limo. Let's make an abstraction of the fact that he just GUESSED she had a limo to leave. they make a really big point of showing her getting into the arena, and getting off her tour bus. Why would she have a limo to leave? What happened to the tour bus, they're just gone? - She just spent 2-3 hours on her feet on a stage singing and dancing. There's NO way her "after-show casual outfit" would be pointed-toe stilettos, that's insane. - She mentions at some point that there was a show planned tonight but they added a 2nd show to trap him, a matinée. Yet, she never came back to the arena to do the show, it seems like that line could have been ADRed and they didn't plan it, right? She clearly hangs at his house once he gets arrested late into the night. - Cooper shoved huge glass jugs of oil in the oil tank for the fries which then exploded in a worker's face who just had to shove her face in it (the heat emanating from the vat should have prevented her from standing so close to it.). We briefly saw her face burn but there were no shards of glass anywhere, it magically blew up but none went into her face. I guess they didn't have the makeup SFX budget for it? - There's ZERO chance the dude went to such a huge concert in this big of an arena and BY COINCIDENCE ran into, not only someone he knows but into her TWICE!? Absolutely. insane. - He left his coat jacket on the restaurant stand to put on the apron. went on the roof. chatted with a security guard. went back down. all while there's a panic going on from a burn victim and incredible security and yet nobody either stole his jacket or thought it was weird and picked it up? It's not believable one bit. - I don't buy for a second that a city has THIS MANY security team members, especially security team members to spare on catching ONE guy. No matter how much he killed. That operation would have cost in the 7 figures, that's insane. - Tell me when's the last time you went to a pop concert that had not one but TWO intermissions, wtf. This isn't a play, dude. - He listens to his hostage screaming on his phone in a bathroom FULL of people with no headphones. That's...euhm... Cooper is taking off his shirt at the end for no reason. Thanks for the gratuitous nudity, M. Night. He said: have fun girls and gays, throwing you a freebie. - The traffic in the arena is absolute madness. Actively, during the concert, there are just people chilling hanging out IN MASSES, AT ALL TIMES. In what world? Has M. Night ever been to a concert? WTF. - Shoutout at the interview they showed before the movie where he said "we spent months planning the concert scenes to make them realistic" but yet they couldn't figure out how to make Lady Raven MOVE on the stage, she pretty much stays center stage the entire movie. Very realistic (not)
How to win this game for Lady Raven pretty early: as she walks out of her room alongside Cooper, she should grab his hands and ask the guards to take his phone from him. Tell all the truth, arrest the guy. The end
I was totally expecting the "twist" in this movie to be that every dumb guy telling the Butcher all this stuff were indeed agents feeding any curious guy who fit the profile false information. But no. SMH. Good concept ruined. BTW at the end of Signs, they say that the aliens are not there for our resources, they're there for the people. So, it's not unusual for even humans to go into environments not good for us to mine resources we want. So it wasn't dumb, just missed by fans and critics.
When you was talking about police intentionally luring Cooper into a TRAP that sounded like a cool idea which should've been implemented, smart serial killer against a smarter cop. We as an audience think the whole time that Cooper is outsmarting the police, but just as they walk out of the concert he is held at gunpoint or something like this, which would also serve as a twist in a way
Chris is the biggest a$$ kisser on youtube; even more so than Ryan from Screenrant or Eric from New Rockstars. Chris is so damn insecure about anyone critiquing his little film, that he's scared to death to say anything even slightly negative. He can handle even the gentlest of critiquing.
@Falconer22 his review of Madam Webb is hilarious, I thought it was one of his joke reviews 😅, never seen someone pader so hard for the writers and director, it was the studios fault apparently
Chris Stuckmann likes whatever movie comes from a director he'd like to work with, which is basically anyone. Keep in mind, Chris made a rap song insulting gay people then a few years later came out as "pansexual". He's pandering to Hollyweird to get in with them. He's a slimeball.
He's always had a blind spot for Shyamalan. Add to that the fact that he's stopped saying anything negative about the films he reviews, and it was a recipe for a monumental asskissing.
He happened to grab an apron that happened to be hanging up (not being worn) that happened to have a wallet in it (cause you would do that with your wallet) that happened to have a security card in it that the owner didn't think to keep-you now, SECURE...that this guy would happen to need...
@@Cassie00111 Judging by the note on SWAT radio, you haven't seen the movie)) Those who watched the film know that he stole the radio when he entered a SWAT meeting and where was plenny of their stuff and enter this room using the card he stole from Jamie, there was no forgotten card. Please, if you haven't seen the film, don't say that there are plot holes in it))
I thought the movie was good. Way better than that nonsense Long Legs. But yeah it did have a lot of nonsensical stuff in that made zero sense. If it was written by someone with more intelligence it could have been one of the top horror movies of the decade. The acting, soundtrack, etc was all there. And the impressiveness to create set pieces with so many people on screen that it looked like a real concert was impressive.
I haven’t seen the movie and have no intention to, but I have a question. Are the tickets to the concert general admission or assigned seating? I ask because the ticket stub left at the house would have the seat numbers on it. If it was general admission, which it looks like from the fact that there are folding chairs on the main floor, why are people sitting where they’re sitting when there are empty chairs closer to the stage. People are casually walking to their seats, suggesting they were assigned seats. But it appears the story just ignores this.
I have a bit of an odd personal gripe with this one. They used two separate venues for filming. The exterior shots are of the Roger's Centre in my city. The interior is a much smaller venue in another city. The issue I have stems from being familiar with the one they used for the exterior. It's much bigger. Infact for a concert they can get around 55,000 in there. The one they used for the interior holds about 19,000. So in the movie when they're inside. I can't help but think "this place feels way too small".
Your Rant way better than film, thanks! Film is 15 minutes of fantastic followed by hour 15 of foolishness! A Mom thinks her husband is a killer and let's daughter go to a concert with him after using concert ticket as a clue, doesn't even give authorities his info 😮 Out of the 14 plus inexplicable events of movie that gets me speaking like Scooby-Doo!
Ok. The Last Airbender was nauseatingly bad, but I gotta totally find an escape from your rant about Trap! What if there was a movie where you were ranting in a theatre but security was looking for you while Trap was playing on every screen. LOL Its either nightmare fuel or fever dream. I love TrapI. Its a new IP with a 90s throw back dark comedy thriller musical vibe. It's as fun as watching your rants.
1. The concert employee goes from having a brief conversation with Cooper to thinking it is appropriate to show him a picture of someone's mutilated corpse/remains (the fact that he just keeps that image on his phone and he has a friend who would take that picture and share it is just wrong on so many levels). 2. The concert employee doesn't realize that Cooper is the killer until after he finisheed his shift for the day. This mean that he never realized his keycard was misplaced/stolen or he did and his superior/colleague was like "Naw, it's fine. We'll figure it out tomorrow ... Hopefully they catch that sadistic serial killer that caused up to beef up our security".
M. Night Shamashite. You forgot to mention how the FBI profiler said if a fire alarm goes off in an auditorium that seats 20,000 people, don’t let any men leave. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Good luck with that, genius.
you also forgot Mr. Meticulous didn't lock the window and amazingly AMAZINGLY even after she put the window down, he didn't lock the door! Also I'm pretty sure limos lock on their own. But there Raven was, opening the door.
If you only take the profiler line of 'some guy is going to try to escape', whenever any man shows up in a place he shouldn't (the roof, the swat huddle room, the stock room, etc) he should have been detained, immediately.
The part that make no sense is where she use his phone to log in to her social account and do live, because she don't have her phone for getting her account verification code.
Well, something that stood out to me. What time did this concert start because it’s October according to a calendar in their house and they’re in Pennsylvania so the sun would go down let’s say 6 o’clock. that’s the earliest concert I’ve ever heard of that wasn’t like a festival
Raven told him this was a matinee showing that had been added on as the Trap, and that there was a second show that night. Which creates a paradox because the show was set as a trap AFTER police found his ticket stub, which meant he had already bought a ticket to the existing show, which, as you said, would be at night. M Night should have plugged his script and notes into chatGPT and had it scan for continuity problems. 😅
I thought I posted this already but I can’t see it so here it is again. The timeline makes no sense. We learn right at the start that the concert has been added after all the other concerts sold out. The concert was added specifically as a trap for Cooper because the FBI knew he would be there because his wife found the ticket. Hang on. How did he have a ticket for the concert before it had been organized? It was only organized as a trap because he was going to be there. It’s not a concert that was taking place anyway. It’s an extra concert that would not have happened without him. There is no possible order of events that works.
The first 30 minutes set up a movie we never got to see. After the concert, the rest of the story deflated like a balloon. M. Shyamalan did subvert my lowest expectations. What a waste of time!
So the Stadium and Artist allows the FBI and Police to lure a SERIAL KILLER into a concert with 20,000 teen girls and surround it with SWAT, armed with assault rifles?????? IMPOSSIBLE The film totally lost me there
I Just saw Trap yesterday and heartily agree with you on how stupid the film has gotten by minutes. Also, I hate how this film has an open-door ending as it is not good enough for a sequel 🤦🏻♂️
It's all ridiculous when you stop to think about it. He really couldve easily just watched the concert and left at the end. They didn't know what he looked like and would have had no way of knowing or proving that he was the killer even if they did arrest him. The whole premise makes no sense
The premise doesn’t even make sense, why didn’t the wife just tell the cops where they live instead of this convoluted ass concert scheme😂😂🤡
The wife put her own daughter and numerous other people's lives in danger unnecessarily because she didn't just call the Police to arrest her husband at home from the get-go.
To caught him in action, wife knows that he will not hurt his daughter if you about danger from Cooper)
@@Str52849In action of what? He's not doing anything but taking them a concert.
M.Night S. needs to hire you.
Seriously.
Hey shut up....in my pitch meeting voice. I can't wait for the pitch meeting for this lol
90% of this movie is just plotholes
Very true. It has more holes than plot, somehow.
@@AdamDoesMovies hahaha
@@anaalicia5029Have you seen Resident Evil The Final Chapter by any chance? This movie reminded me of that. It's by far the worst movie I have ever seen in my life.
I think the proper word is plot canyons
@@anaalicia5029Have you seen Resident Evil The Final Chapter? This film reminds me that. The film is riddled with plot holes
I’ve got a few (in no particular order):
- It’s established the wife suspected him of being the Butcher and she was the one that left the receipt for the concert at one of his planning houses so the cops could trap him.
WHY DOESNT SHE JUST CALL THE COPS ANONYMOUSLY AND HAVE THEM PICK HIM UP FOR QUESTIONING???) Instead she puts her daughter and 30,000 people in danger at a concert
- minor one, but still wtf..Cooper comes back to house to confront wife and for no reason at all just takes his shirt off and sits there lol
- Lady Raven is in the car with Cooper (in his garage) and she tries to get in his head by yelling at him,pretending to be Cooper’s mother who abused him. We know that the mother abused him, how does she know? The FBI profiler sat down and reviewed the case with the star of the concert?? 😅
There’s probably 100
more
He took his shirt of not to stain clothes, so why he didnt take off pants?
Yes the singer was in in the fbi plan. She got the whole orientation about his history
How did he get his shirt back on between getting tazed and getting cuffed? He used the shirt sleeve to conceal the bike spoke…
There are at least a dozen more improbabilities. It’s what makes this movie a PARODY of the classic thrillers. m Knight tells us right at the BEGINNING the concept is preposterous and expects us to go along with it. It is a hilarious film for those of us who can. Consider yourself insulted.
@@mgariepy42 Awesome! Now do The Happening
You know Adam hates a movie when he does a review...then a spoiler review...THEN a Top 10 Dumbest Things video before the movie has even been out for a week
I guess it’s the one redeeming aspect of the film that you can just endlessly talk about how bad it was. I like when movies are like that.
@@SENATORPAIN1it really was riveting. I haven't seen a movie this bad, this stupid, this nonsensical in a really long time. It truly has to be seen. M. Knight has really outdone himself.
This is a fun format. You should Top Ten Dumbest more often. 😂
I'm doing Top 10s weekly going fowrad
@@AdamDoesMovies Nice!
How did the mob of people lose sight of one guy when he escaped the limo and not see him set up the decoy?
I thought that would be in the top 3 TBH 😂
100%! This is the moment the movie pissed me off for expecting us to to accept this with no explanation
Seriously? Do you know how long a limo is? He was at the front. Raven was at the back. She got out of the limo on one side telling people to call the police. Cooper gets out on the opposite side, while the crowd is creating a natural diversion and cover, so he can slip away. It’s a very basic espionage tactic.
Bro they were looking at the celebrity he had time to change, set the prop driver up, and stand in the crowd, since she said absolutely nothing when she got out the car..
@@TheCuttyBrown Bc people weren't around the entire limo looking at every angle trying to see her lol
Calling Shyamalan "visionary" at this point should be a crime punishable by imprisonment. This movie was so bad that I literally could not believe that it made it to theatre's.
I haven't finished the video yet, but a dumb moment for me was when Cooper sabotaged the french fry station in the kitchen and nobody saw him come and go despite police seemingly surveying everything with cameras at all times. That and of course the limo escape was absurd
They couldn't figure out how he could get behind the counter without being seen so they just cut to a shot of his hand turning the temperature, then suddenly it's all done and he's back in front of the counter 😂😂😂😂 unreal
Or they girl just standing there after she noticed the jars in the grease, till they exploded in her face😂
His wife was the one who gave him up but they never asked her for a pic which was all over the living room. Why did they have to catch him at a concert which could cause hostages? That
Anonymous tip
Why didn't he just have an original creative collaboration with his daughter, and produce an interesting concept music video album with her...
You think he would've learned a lesson from his other nepo film with Jaden Smith.
Because he wanted to trick you and it worked
That would have made more sense!!
They did do that... this movie is the result 😂
About the premise, let’s not forget that the wife intentionally led them to the concert-which she knew he was going to attend WITH THEIR DAUGHTER. What’s the plan there? Of all the damn hints she could have dropped, she chose both the most convoluted and the most dangerous possible… that was probably the most idiotic plot point of the whole movie to me (and there’s serious competition lmao). Anyway, great video 😂
You're the only person that I trust and respect with reviews now. It's nice to finally see someone who actually calls out why this movie is so terrible. Too many fans of Shyamalan are too scared to say how they feel and can only say "this movie was FUN... I had FUN!"
So many ridiculous moments that make no sense just to move the plot forward.. One of the worst is when he goes to the roof and asks the swat guy "what's up with the FBI lady running the show?" Sway guy says, " She the best FBI profiler, she's thought of everything!" This would NEVER happen. The movie was about 40 moments just like that lmfao
When they shoot the limo, it looks like not one of the swat/ police have any clue how to hold a gun. It was hilarious.
And the fact that the roof was empty, swat guy came from behind the support beam like he was hiding, and then all of the sudden there's 15+ swat on the roof.
This movie made me angry and ruined my day
Big concert happens entirely during daylight
Thx Adam! I need more validation on how freakin moronic this movie is. Plz do #11 - #20!
Some honorable mentions (or use them for 11 -20 in ur next vid hehe):
• Why the hell did Coop bring her into his wife’s car and before they even get out of the garage he lets her get out and walk away, why, bcuz his family was standing there?? I’m sure they would have moved if he started to drive forward. He was going to kill his wife anyway, so why would he care if he ran her over?
• When he handcuffs Lady Nepo to the plastic tube on the limo door and he stops and lets a crowd surround the limo…uhhh why?? And why not just plow through them if they are in the way??
• Why did the cops open fire on an UNKNOWN target in the driver seat, which ended up being a pile of clothes? Authorities are supposed to confirm the target before taking shots.
there are soooo many more I could go on and on…and on 🤦🏻♂️
Good point. They fired on an unknown target but tazed him when they new it was him in his house.
Lady Nepo😂😂😂😂
Wouldn’t the receipt have their seat number and row on it? or maybe it would show that he paid probably $1K for 2 tickets so they should know he’d be sitting on the floor? If not then it would at least show the date and time he purchased the tickets assuming it was in person since he has a paper receipt and they would just go access the security footage and see who purchased tickets at that exact time? I don’t know whatever
I thought this. He very specifically spoke to his daughter about seat location. Even if the feds only found a receipt, they could have traced that to the ticket.
My favourite is his escape from the car near the end. Lady Gaga... er Raven has managed somehow to break the bit she was handcuffed to and get out. The car is completely surrounded, several deep, by her fans crowded right up against it. Then the police arrive and there are so many fans that they have to move them away. Then they shoot through the window at the driver. But it isn't the driver. It's just a helmet propped up on the driver's seat. Somehow Cooper has managed to change clothes, set up a dummy and get out of the car and walk away without a single person noticing him do it - not the fans who surrounded the car, not the police who surrounded the car, NO-ONE.
He threatened Raven he would kill this unknown guy. What if she didnt care? He risked a lot in this scene.
I just checked Amazon and I couldn’t find a remote carbon monoxide on and off device. Not even a CM kill victim app.
What if his daughter wasn't picked for the stage???
@@Circurose all was unbelievable, but still enjoyable. I just actually focused on how attractive Josh looks😁
@@AT-sd9qq This would be ridiculous, but he could have rigged a car to start and pipe the exhaust into that room, assuming it was relatively air tight. it's supposed to be an abandoned house anyway.
I thought FOR SURE the hostage would have been someone super important to her. Her dad, her fiance/boyfriend, anything. THAT would have made more sense that she would just shut up. Otherwise it could be staged footage, so what? I'd scream the second he showed me that, or at a minimum, when walking past all the swat. ALONE.
12:00 To be clear, he didn't have a shirt on. He would have been cuffed without a shirt.
Oh wait though, now there's nowhere to hide the bike spoke. So I guess we have to put his shirt back on, off screen, before cuffing him... Award winning writing.
Why didn't he just keep the shirt on in the first place?
How did the cops figure out he has a tattoo on his wrist but not knod his race, hair color, his height and weight
It was one of the 4-5 random possibilities that the police had from security cameras at various scenes. The 60 year old African American, 20 year old Asian, 40 year old white guy with bird tattoo. I mean that itself is ridiculous and they provide no explanation for why there were so many different type of suspects. On top of that, his tattoo is like 1 inch by 1 inch so HTF did a security camera pick that up? AND on top of that, lol, he covers it with one of the concert wristbands as if the cops would never think to look under it.
The amusing thing is that as I was watching it and trying to guess the twist, i came up with a bunch of theories/guesses that would have been much better (honestly they couldn't be worse than the actual plot:
Theory 1) There was more than 1 butcher (1 for each kill, which would explain all the wildly different profiles) and they were all going to be at the concert for some final showdown against each other
Theory 2) Someone was poisoning the concert goers, there were 2 separate girls who got sick, 1 that he pushed down the stairs and the other that he helped backstage
Theory 3) Lady Raven was the head of some serial killer sect/cult and she had arranged for all the butchers to be at the concert and that's why she went with him to the house and wasn't afraid and she would reveal that he was the winner or gained membership to this secret society to him. That would be the only reason for all the dumb decisions
@@jasonk9580 Those are some very creative and interesting theories.
@@DannyKnightblade45 If only I had a child beginning her R&B singing career to promote, I might write a screenplay😉
They hadn't figured anything out. The whole thing was a fishing expedition hoping to make him nervous enough to come forward and give himself up.
@@razorbeard6970 really? That must be on the directors cut DVD because there’s no way that was indicated in the movie I saw.
2:01 but... he literally did walk into a stall lmao
It turns out, based on the facts from the movie, we can say that the reviewer watched the film "so carefully" that his opinion is illegitimate. And all his jokes in context are a "good face against a bad game". And the increased emotionality about the fact that Cooper "did not enter the stall" makes the reviewer look stupid) It was not a very smart move from the person who put the word in the title "Dumbest" about movie he's not seen :D Maybe you should watch the movie first, and many of the plot holes will disappear by themselves? ;)
Yeah, I watched another video this guy did on Trap. He gets all sorts of details wrong. He clearly paid very little attention to the movie.
@@commandercorner5575 ikr
Dude, is blinded by rage. 😂
You are great! I used to love Chris Stuckman with his hilariousity videos, but he is so insecure about anyone in the world ever giving him an honest critique on his little film, he kisses everyones a$$. He has zero self respect because he doesnt give honest reviews; he panders and kisses butt.
Agree. Adam has become my replacement when I unsubscribed from Stuck for those same reasons.
Stuckman is a coward and this guy is too effeminate. Crirical Drinker is the ticket
ANNNND, by the way……when they tazzed him, his shirt was off. Then, seconds later, apparently they stopped to let him put his shirt (that was in the dining room) back on, before they take him out of the house……WHY?! Well, where else could he have hid the fricken spoke of the bike, but up his sleeve?!!! GAAAAAHHHH!!!!! 😡🤬
It would have been more coherent had he hid it up his butt
How did the FBI profiler know that the killer would have a tattoo of a animal on their arm?
it's about hurting and protecting animals stuff)
If they had such a detailed picture of his wrist, how could they think that he might be black?
She googled it.
@@Leonardo-ub8qb with no detailed puctures, just saw a tattoo with some animal. It possible when you open a door and camera not see your face, not goof at all
@@Leonardo-ub8qb they have pictures of many people around crime scene from curvailence and checking possible suspects during the concert as we saw in Trap clearly)
letting hold that bicycle for so long was infuriating. this man just fillet'd members of the public and gouged the eyes out of a SWAT team member. the police arent too smart IRL but this was scooby doo level foolish
The fact that the police didn't have lethal backup for when the tasers failed was infuriating. He would have been filled with bullets the second the taser didn't work (assuming they weren't crossing each other with gunfire) and definitely after he gouged that guys eyes out.
Also… the police found „one of his hiding places“… he’s a firefighter, is his wife RICH?! Why do all serial killers have tons of properties/rental places without a credit card and/or names on papers somewhere?
5:52 You missed his patient removal of the pantry goods when the cops were surrounding the house! Haha
lol I can’t argue with any of your points, but he definitely went into a bathroom stall. And I also was questioning the asthma thing. Driving me nuts. Only thing I can think of is bc she can understand him suffocating his victim bc she knows what it’s like not to be able to breath? Lol
That was a pointless red herring, and so was Lady Raven’s male guest singer flirting and romantically gesturing to the killer. I thought the killer would pretend to be into him to make his escape. Instead, it just happened and was immediately forgotten.
@@MoneyManHolmeslol that was kid cuddy. I just assumed that was supposed to be some comic relief bc we all love Josh hartnett
Adam I totally agree with your assessment about this director. All of his movies are riddled with terrible plot holes. But the comment about aliens going to a planet that’s made up primarily of what kills them totally cracked me up.😂 lol I laughed my ass off. I never thought of that. Damn so on point and funny
In the same scene where we learn that Lady Raven has asthma, we are also told that the black blonde guy is lactose intollerant. Why? Did Shyamalan had to fill a DEI quota for allergic people?
I pretty sure that when they show the scene where Cooper noticing Raven has asthma, they want us to make assumptions about what he planning on doing but change his mind. Like for an example, sneak into Raven's dressing room sabotage her inhaler and when she needs to use it, it doesn't work and she would have an asthma attack on stage and pass out which would possible cause mass panic and hysterical and allow him to sip away in the confusion. Similar to the scene where he thought about pulling the fire alarm but change his mind.
When you think about it if the cops were tipped off that a serial killer was going to this gig the concert would get called off.because surely the first thought would be he might try and kill the star.
The stupidest thing about the underground tunnel in his house is the fact that just 5 minutes earlier he admits he didn't consider his family could escape from his kid's room because he "always kept the 2 lives separate" - then why did you DIG A TUNNEL UNDERGROUND TO YOUR NEIGHBOUR'S YARD?!
Trap sounds like this is just a vehicle to give the director's daughter a career. I never forget how he cast Ron Howard's daughter in a few of his movies. Nepotism.
Not as bad as F.F Coppolla. Nicholas Cage and Jason Schwartzman are his nephews. Talia Shire is his sister and of course Sofia Coppolla is his daughter.
I appreciate your dry wit 😁(it’s surprisingly hard to find these days)
That's the exact 1st thing that came to my mind once he started talking to the t-shirt seller...this HAS to be a set up by feeding him all this information. But nope, it really was as moronic as it seemed.
Hilarious as always Adam. I think we need some special features on movies nowadays where the director sits down and explains just what the hell they were thinking on some of these plot points. Or even better a trial of some kind where a jury can put a stop to some of these obnoxious antics. It would be a nice dialogue.
The biggest plot twist in Hollywood is how anyone srill thinks M should be making movies. He has one sort of interesting movie a thousand years ago and bombed repeatedly since.
Oh, I thought we were going to find out the daughter was the serial killer. Why else would they stage this concert? Why would they think a middle-aged man would care?
This movie was so ridiculous.
Why did Lady Raven arrive in a tour bus but leave in a limo lol. What.
cuz her driver works for uber eats
Honestly by that point the plot has already gotten so ridiculous that she could’ve left in a spaceship and I would’ve barely noticed 😂
@@sarahrebeyrat8930 🤣🤣🤣 true true
An off the wall twist like that might have actually redeemed the movie 🤣
She was traveling to a concert from another city, and returning after the concert to relax at the hotel. People start inventing holes where there are none))
Oh man you didn't even get to the best 1. Damn this gonna be long. From the start of the movie I was waiting for 1 answer How Did The Police Know He Was At The Concert. We only got the full answer at the end of the movie. The wife suspected him of being The Butcher and followed him. He went To his safe house a place to be alone, plan and think on his crimes but was still just an empty house. Wife found nothing so then left an article of his clothing which had a receipt for the concert tickets that how they know where he was going and that it was a man. Than the wife called the police and told them the house was being used by The Butcher and the police just believed her and that's how we got the sting operation?????? WHAT????? Perfect end to the movie
So much for heightened security and then FBI gives a low down on everyting about the profile they are looking for, all thru a walkie. 🤣🤣
Imagine this movie directed by Jonathan Demme. A good twist would’ve been to have the whole story in the venue, they catch and kill a serial killer “. In the end “the butcher” is actually revealed to be the t-shirt guy Jamie.
Once he entered the room where they were doing their meeting, I knew i was in for a long night
So I watched this movie Friday.
I agree with every point you've made.
All I can say is that immediately after watching the movie all I could think was, that there were that many rewrites during production to change the direction of the movie, that the final cut inevitably left too many loose end unanswered unfinished questions.
I'm with you on this one, I think in the original draft the lead investigator woman was there to purposely feed josh information and lead him like a rat through a trap.
Other mind boggling cuts seem to be the utilisation of discovering lady raven uses an inhaler. And many many more.
Oh and can someone explain why josh took his top off towards the end of the movie?? Was it just a case of 'hey....why not...lets see josh tazerd while hes bare chested'??
Shyamalan's next biggest twist is that he actually makes a decent movie.
Adam, you are hilarious!!! Glad I came across this!...now I don't feel bad not being able to watch this movie, lol! And,...I have seen David Fincher's The Game...very good movie!
Love “The Game;” classic flick. Maybe that will be a positive from this disaster of a movie… people seeing this review to laugh at it again might be inspired to go watch Fincher’s “The Game!”
The T-Shirt guy topped them all. And then him giving out the FBI password to a total stranger after a few minutes !!! (great video and just subscribed)
Awesome, thanks!
@@AdamDoesMoviesWhat do you think of the theory that he has superpowers like in unbreakable. He has powers of persuasion, luck etc.
You’re totally right, Trap has a preposterous concept. That’s your tip off right there as to what M Night is doing with his movie. There are a million improbabilities, tongue in cheek dialogue, over the top performances, and a hilarious tone throughout. Why are you people taking this film SERIOUSLY?! M Night says it’s intended to be a funny, playful film in the serial killer thriller genre.
Hartnett says Night thought some of the scenes hilarious as he shot them. And that playing a monster that the audience incredibly roots for was a huge challenge walking a line between drama and comedy.
My favorite scene comes near the end. Oh my dear now I’m going to have to kill you and then myself, you know, the average way. And I am sooo angry with you because now I can’t watch my kids grow up. Rachel: well, before you chop me up into pieces, let’s sit down and have a piece of pie, for old times sake. So Cooper lays down the cleaver and takes off his shirt. Can’t get blood all over it, you know. Then the swing for the bleachers King Kong impression (Hartnett is f***ing brilliant here) where he lurches and lunges towards the mommy hallucination, wild-eyed and emotional, gouging out a SWAT guy’s eyes after being tased 4,382 times. I mean, COME ON, folks, this is a FUN movie.
I will agree with some tho that Saleka is miscast for the speaking part. While she’s great giving a Swiftie-esque concert, she should never have been given a significant role offstage. I don’t know how else Night could have written the character but thankfully her cringeworthy performance is overcome by Hartnett and Pill giving terrific ones.
If you guys watch the movie with a different perspective, I think you’ll see this is def one of Night’s best. He TOLD us it was going to be different and that there’d be NO twist. But a lot of people came into the movie with tired and stale expectations and so are disappointed that it’s not meeting them.
Let’s count YOUR stupids in this video.
1. There are 12 victims in 7 years and Cooper is IN the stall. He’s getting his butcher kicks watching #13. Obsessive.
2. Security? What a nit pick. There are f***ing SWAT teams all around her. Her manager tells them the guys okay bcuz his daughter had leukemia and they want to treat them.
3. The Tunnel is part of the joke! The entrance is blocked by canned goods on the shelves. He also has his bag stashed in a hidden cubby hole in the garage. And Cooper is in a SWAT uniform when he tells the driver that he’ll take it from here.
4. The movie does not end with Cooper freeing himself in the van. Did you watch the credits? Jamie makes a hilarious appearance. And when did you ever see a police van equipped with cameras INSIDE? The guards letting Cooper lovingly pick up his little boy’s bike is another hysterical improbability in the movie. If you’ve been taking the movie seriously, you’ll have missed the comic aspect of this.
(PS Night says he deleted scenes to fit the 2-hour limit. I’m assuming the inhaler bit was one that followed. Again, this nit pick didn’t bother me at all.)
5. Jamie’s role 😂 Everything you point out is an improbability that builds the comedy. “I can tell you’re a father that has family values.” 😆 Oh, you’re a firefighter, you’re on our side. Cooper hands back the box tool: “Here, we wouldn’t want you to cut yourself.” 😆 Jamie is a bumbling serial killer junkie, tickled to tell this charming stranger all about the sting. His whole riff is hilarious.
6. Dr Grant has told the cops the Unsub knows he’s trapped but will not panic. He’ll cause distractions. Push the girl down the stairs, blow up the fryer, contemplate pulling the fire alarm until he hears Grant mention the fire alarm option. About the surveillance cameras. We know there are 20,000 people in the arena, 3,000 of them men. What the profiler knows: he’s a man. Maybe white maybe black maybe old maybe middle aged with some sort of animal tattoo on him. So what will the cameras show? 🤦♀️
7. Cooper has mommy issues. We see this when he’s washing his hands. (OCD flag) We see the hallucination a couple more times. Lady Raven explains his psychopathy to his family sitting around the table of snacks and we also know he has OCD. (He straightens the towel, he tries to adjust the tennis racquet, he folds his shirt neatly on the table (so it won’t get blood on it). Near the end he hallucinates Dr Grant as mommy, precipitating his downfall.
8. Cooper holds Lady Raven emotionally hostage by threatening to kill Spencer if she calls out. (Another brilliant bit of acting by Hartnett, “ Catch me. Kill him. Catch me, kill him. With that outrageous smile 😅) We know from her stage speech that she is a bleeding heart. She’s not going to risk his life.
9. The conceit is that the psychopath has a soft side he’s struggling with. We have to buy in to his split personality. He tells Riley not to let people fool her ( this from the biggest con artist in town). He is protective and affectionate with Riley. In one scene he calls out to Logan to finish the science project and to Rachel not to let the water heater guy rip her off. In the car he muses, I meant to keep both lenses separate, not to ever let them touch. The butcher is cracking. People are not whole, they’re in pieces. So we see the story pivot. Just like Cooper. The killer thriller part splits into the psychologically tender part. And swings back again. Fool me twice…😂
10. Everything you take as preposterous is INTENTIONAL. How did you not “get it”? Imagine the absurdity, hunting for a serial killer treating his oblivious daughter to a pop concert! Ludicrous! Hilarious!
10.5. Your voice is 😬 Take it down a notch. Or are we supposed to see the outrage as a preposterous put on….
I am glad you are flaming this film because too many people give people like M Night a pass for his crappy film making and writing. Like I cant believe some fans have seriously been suggesting that M Night should get praise because he brought josh harnett back. LIke he was litterally in Black Mirror and Oppenheimer yall. he wasnt gone that long.
The guy litterally made a film to scam his audience into listening to his daughters music and im supposed to be grateful?
Nobody forces you to watch this movie and no one forces you to be grateful for anything. Even in the trailer they wrote a warning line “In the world of M.Night Shyamalan”, so they hope that the characters in this film will act as we are usually used to - naively)
@@Str52849Meaning Badly written 😂
As a writer, the second I saw them make Lady Raven the protagonist and completely ignore any attempts for Riley to find out and solve the secret herself, I immediately knew why this movie was made.
From that moment on… booty cheeks.
I've been 100's of concerts. The headliner doesn't have 3-4 intermissions for set changes. Maybe 1 for an encore. His daughter would have never left her seat for any reason.
And her concert wouldn't have started at 5PM since it is still broad daylight when the show ends.
Add this one. How come there are hundreds of people in the halls while the concert is going on? And you know this because the dad excuses himself multiple of times while his daughter stays to watch. And the concert is visibly packed. If you’ve ever been at a concert, the only people in the hallways are the ones going to the bathroom or getting something to eat. But in this film, it looks like the concert is over and everyone’s leaving, every time the dad leaves his daughter. WTF!?
If you watched the movie, you would notice that they dismantled and put up other sets before the next songs. This was stated directly and clearly in the film.
@@Str52849 no. it's not. the outside is always full when he excused himself.
@strikebreakings only once did they say the dismantling thing (which is dumb also, just say it was an intermission??) . Every other time the concert was still ongoing and he had left his daughter there.
@strikebreakings But that's not how any concert has ever worked
Lawd...this tickled me!! 😂😂 You took all my feelings about this movie and laid it out to a tee! 😂😂😂
After Butcher kidnapped Lady Raven with putting his hand on her shoulder and put her in the car, he sees his family in front of the car and Buthcer went hypnotized or sth, and Lady Raven quietly escapes from the car. what was that?
(By the way they showed the Andy Dufresne tunnel, in the closet behind some things)
Also why aren’t the police and fbi undercover? This film is just hilarious.
You bring up an excellent observation. I'm thinking the big twist is Haley Mills from the Parent Trap.
Please review "Blink Twice ". It looks from the trailers like two women, in addition to Channing Tatum, are the leads. However, the women look very unattractive. You'll have to tell us if this is part of the plot.
So I suspect that the raven going to the house was part of a premise like The Game. It would be a second act where cooper believes he’s gotten away and that this raven girl is clueless to everything basically delivering him home and even performing for his daughter. Think about the entire movie playing out without the scene where cooper shows raven the kid on his phone. This would have made it a twist but M Night wanted his daughter to be seen as braver to the audience with no gap in their thinking, even if that nativity was part of a twist. Nepotism and its impacts on directorial decisions and m nights clear biases, ruined this movie.
Lmaooooooo
so good , subscribed
I never thought of that, Adam! That would've been a really cool M. Night twist. If Josh Hartnett was following the "trap" exactly how they wanted him to all along.
My question is very simple, almost dumb:
Why would he take his daughter to any concert in the first place? Usually it’s the Moms that take their daughters to a pop concert. He could have easily given the tickets to his daughter and said “Here. This is more your mom’s cup of tea than mine.
And besides, I have some pressing business to take care of that night. Love ya have fun!”
Quite sexist tbh, there's no reason it'd be the mums cop of tea anymore than his
I was saying the same thing. How are you gonna have a sting and you dont have description on what the killer looks like? Even if they do arrest Josh Harnett... What proof do they have that he's the killer?
They have rough description of possible person of interest from crime scene surveillance and they wanted to catch him at action on concert. Yes, the actions of the wife and the police are morally questionable. The movie tells us that Cooper isn't the only bad guy here ;)
@@Str52849Wow you are such a homer the levels you are going to defend this trash 😂. All of those descriptions ranged all over the place so they had nothing real to go on.. and you keep saying in action... In action of doing WHAT!? Listening to music? Your logic makes no sense
they apparently just have to ask a couple questions to find him!
Perhaps lady raven went to the house because she figured no one would believe her despite all the witnesses and camera evidence. To be fair, going by this movie’s logic he would’ve gotten away while killing the hostage. Ending with Lady Raven becoming a suspect would have made for an amusing ending to be sure. Remember, Cooper is a magician.
He is The Escape Man ! Somebody call to The Overseer and Casey Cooke!)
Thank you for saving me $22. I saw your original video and decided to give it a hard pass based on that. My son later confirmed that I made the right decision in sitting this one out.
wow, it was expensive ticket)
Don’t pay!! I saw it for free and I want my 2 hours of my life back and I deserve compensation from M. Night 😅😅😅😅
These spoiler reviews and roasts are some of the best on your channel. Keep it coming.
Things I noticed that struck me:
- He demands Lady Raven drive him in her limo. Let's make an abstraction of the fact that he just GUESSED she had a limo to leave. they make a really big point of showing her getting into the arena, and getting off her tour bus. Why would she have a limo to leave? What happened to the tour bus, they're just gone?
- She just spent 2-3 hours on her feet on a stage singing and dancing. There's NO way her "after-show casual outfit" would be pointed-toe stilettos, that's insane.
- She mentions at some point that there was a show planned tonight but they added a 2nd show to trap him, a matinée. Yet, she never came back to the arena to do the show, it seems like that line could have been ADRed and they didn't plan it, right? She clearly hangs at his house once he gets arrested late into the night.
- Cooper shoved huge glass jugs of oil in the oil tank for the fries which then exploded in a worker's face who just had to shove her face in it (the heat emanating from the vat should have prevented her from standing so close to it.). We briefly saw her face burn but there were no shards of glass anywhere, it magically blew up but none went into her face. I guess they didn't have the makeup SFX budget for it?
- There's ZERO chance the dude went to such a huge concert in this big of an arena and BY COINCIDENCE ran into, not only someone he knows but into her TWICE!? Absolutely. insane.
- He left his coat jacket on the restaurant stand to put on the apron. went on the roof. chatted with a security guard. went back down. all while there's a panic going on from a burn victim and incredible security and yet nobody either stole his jacket or thought it was weird and picked it up? It's not believable one bit.
- I don't buy for a second that a city has THIS MANY security team members, especially security team members to spare on catching ONE guy. No matter how much he killed. That operation would have cost in the 7 figures, that's insane.
- Tell me when's the last time you went to a pop concert that had not one but TWO intermissions, wtf. This isn't a play, dude.
- He listens to his hostage screaming on his phone in a bathroom FULL of people with no headphones. That's...euhm...
Cooper is taking off his shirt at the end for no reason. Thanks for the gratuitous nudity, M. Night. He said: have fun girls and gays, throwing you a freebie.
- The traffic in the arena is absolute madness. Actively, during the concert, there are just people chilling hanging out IN MASSES, AT ALL TIMES. In what world? Has M. Night ever been to a concert? WTF.
- Shoutout at the interview they showed before the movie where he said "we spent months planning the concert scenes to make them realistic" but yet they couldn't figure out how to make Lady Raven MOVE on the stage, she pretty much stays center stage the entire movie. Very realistic (not)
How to win this game for Lady Raven pretty early: as she walks out of her room alongside Cooper, she should grab his hands and ask the guards to take his phone from him. Tell all the truth, arrest the guy. The end
I was totally expecting the "twist" in this movie to be that every dumb guy telling the Butcher all this stuff were indeed agents feeding any curious guy who fit the profile false information. But no. SMH. Good concept ruined.
BTW at the end of Signs, they say that the aliens are not there for our resources, they're there for the people. So, it's not unusual for even humans to go into environments not good for us to mine resources we want. So it wasn't dumb, just missed by fans and critics.
When you was talking about police intentionally luring Cooper into a TRAP that sounded like a cool idea which should've been implemented, smart serial killer against a smarter cop. We as an audience think the whole time that Cooper is outsmarting the police, but just as they walk out of the concert he is held at gunpoint or something like this, which would also serve as a twist in a way
Re: number 10, he did actually go into a stall though, the clip you showed was him in the stall looking at his phone
Miss Bliss is his mom. That is the secret twist and the reason why so many things go his way.
Chris Stuckman liked this film😅
Chris is the biggest a$$ kisser on youtube; even more so than Ryan from Screenrant or Eric from New Rockstars. Chris is so damn insecure about anyone critiquing his little film, that he's scared to death to say anything even slightly negative. He can handle even the gentlest of critiquing.
@Falconer22 his review of Madam Webb is hilarious, I thought it was one of his joke reviews 😅, never seen someone pader so hard for the writers and director, it was the studios fault apparently
He’s always been a Shyamalana ding dong meatrider
Chris Stuckmann likes whatever movie comes from a director he'd like to work with, which is basically anyone. Keep in mind, Chris made a rap song insulting gay people then a few years later came out as "pansexual". He's pandering to Hollyweird to get in with them. He's a slimeball.
He's always had a blind spot for Shyamalan. Add to that the fact that he's stopped saying anything negative about the films he reviews, and it was a recipe for a monumental asskissing.
He happened to grab an apron that happened to be hanging up (not being worn) that happened to have a wallet in it (cause you would do that with your wallet) that happened to have a security card in it that the owner didn't think to keep-you now, SECURE...that this guy would happen to need...
And swat radio happened to laying about
Judging by the note on the security card, you haven't seen the movie.
@@Cassie00111 Judging by the note on SWAT radio, you haven't seen the movie)) Those who watched the film know that he stole the radio when he entered a SWAT meeting and where was plenny of their stuff and enter this room using the card he stole from Jamie, there was no forgotten card. Please, if you haven't seen the film, don't say that there are plot holes in it))
@@Str52849 A room full of the stupidest swat in history. but everyone's an idiot in this movie anyway.
I'm taking about the card in the apron he needed on the roof. Sheesh
I thought the movie was good. Way better than that nonsense Long Legs. But yeah it did have a lot of nonsensical stuff in that made zero sense. If it was written by someone with more intelligence it could have been one of the top horror movies of the decade. The acting, soundtrack, etc was all there. And the impressiveness to create set pieces with so many people on screen that it looked like a real concert was impressive.
I just wrote that the lady FBI agent in Longlegs was worst than these fbi agents than trap
I haven’t seen the movie and have no intention to, but I have a question. Are the tickets to the concert general admission or assigned seating? I ask because the ticket stub left at the house would have the seat numbers on it. If it was general admission, which it looks like from the fact that there are folding chairs on the main floor, why are people sitting where they’re sitting when there are empty chairs closer to the stage. People are casually walking to their seats, suggesting they were assigned seats. But it appears the story just ignores this.
I have a bit of an odd personal gripe with this one. They used two separate venues for filming. The exterior shots are of the Roger's Centre in my city. The interior is a much smaller venue in another city. The issue I have stems from being familiar with the one they used for the exterior. It's much bigger. Infact for a concert they can get around 55,000 in there. The one they used for the interior holds about 19,000. So in the movie when they're inside. I can't help but think "this place feels way too small".
Adam having a fieldtrip with this excuse for a movie, and we are here for it ❤
Your Rant way better than film, thanks! Film is 15 minutes of fantastic followed by hour 15 of foolishness! A Mom thinks her husband is a killer and let's daughter go to a concert with him after using concert ticket as a clue, doesn't even give authorities his info 😮 Out of the 14 plus inexplicable events of movie that gets me speaking like Scooby-Doo!
Ok. The Last Airbender was nauseatingly bad, but I gotta totally find an escape from your rant about Trap!
What if there was a movie where you were ranting in a theatre but security was looking for you while Trap was playing on every screen. LOL Its either nightmare fuel or fever dream.
I love TrapI. Its a new IP with a 90s throw back dark comedy thriller musical vibe. It's as fun as watching your rants.
1. The concert employee goes from having a brief conversation with Cooper to thinking it is appropriate to show him a picture of someone's mutilated corpse/remains (the fact that he just keeps that image on his phone and he has a friend who would take that picture and share it is just wrong on so many levels).
2. The concert employee doesn't realize that Cooper is the killer until after he finisheed his shift for the day. This mean that he never realized his keycard was misplaced/stolen or he did and his superior/colleague was like "Naw, it's fine. We'll figure it out tomorrow ... Hopefully they catch that sadistic serial killer that caused up to beef up our security".
M. Night Shamashite. You forgot to mention how the FBI profiler said if a fire alarm goes off in an auditorium that seats 20,000 people, don’t let any men leave. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Good luck with that, genius.
How did the wife not just give the cops a picture of her husband?
just a suggestion, love your content. maybe link the other videos related to the movie. thanks!
Your freakouts were so good this time! Was hoping for a stroooong femaaaaale lead 🤣🤣🤣
Can anyone address the horribly cringe-worthy acting of Shyamalan’s daughter?
Yes!! I felt so uncomfortable everytime the camera was on her. 🤣
You are the best reviewer in town. Much more high iq than Stuckman who is the biggest simp.
HUGE, ENORMOUS pandering simp. The guy has zero self respect and is over flowing with insecurities.
you also forgot Mr. Meticulous didn't lock the window and amazingly AMAZINGLY even after she put the window down, he didn't lock the door! Also I'm pretty sure limos lock on their own. But there Raven was, opening the door.
On the rooftop of the arena he just so happened to find the wallet of the employee in the pouch just as the agent asked for his ID 😂
If you only take the profiler line of 'some guy is going to try to escape', whenever any man shows up in a place he shouldn't (the roof, the swat huddle room, the stock room, etc) he should have been detained, immediately.
The part that make no sense is where she use his phone to log in to her social account and do live, because she don't have her phone for getting her account verification code.
Well, something that stood out to me. What time did this concert start because it’s October according to a calendar in their house and they’re in Pennsylvania so the sun would go down let’s say 6 o’clock. that’s the earliest concert I’ve ever heard of that wasn’t like a festival
Raven told him this was a matinee showing that had been added on as the Trap, and that there was a second show that night. Which creates a paradox because the show was set as a trap AFTER police found his ticket stub, which meant he had already bought a ticket to the existing show, which, as you said, would be at night. M Night should have plugged his script and notes into chatGPT and had it scan for continuity problems. 😅
@@winstondavenport I missed that. When it comes on demand I will have to go back and listen to that again
I thought I posted this already but I can’t see it so here it is again. The timeline makes no sense. We learn right at the start that the concert has been added after all the other concerts sold out. The concert was added specifically as a trap for Cooper because the FBI knew he would be there because his wife found the ticket. Hang on. How did he have a ticket for the concert before it had been organized? It was only organized as a trap because he was going to be there. It’s not a concert that was taking place anyway. It’s an extra concert that would not have happened without him. There is no possible order of events that works.
Him just knocking on the door while she had his phone was the last straw for me😂 he’s supposed to kick that door off the hinges
I’m almost convinced Tyler Perry had some part in the making of this film 😂😂😂😂
Always a good time watching your videos 😂
Few directors epitomize “jumping the shark” better than M. Night Shymalan.
The first 30 minutes set up a movie we never got to see. After the concert, the rest of the story deflated like a balloon. M. Shyamalan did subvert my lowest expectations. What a waste of time!
So the Stadium and Artist allows the FBI and Police to lure a SERIAL KILLER into a concert with 20,000 teen girls and surround it with SWAT, armed with assault rifles?????? IMPOSSIBLE The film totally lost me there
I Just saw Trap yesterday and heartily agree with you on how stupid the film has gotten by minutes. Also, I hate how this film has an open-door ending as it is not good enough for a sequel 🤦🏻♂️
It's all ridiculous when you stop to think about it. He really couldve easily just watched the concert and left at the end. They didn't know what he looked like and would have had no way of knowing or proving that he was the killer even if they did arrest him. The whole premise makes no sense