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Trapped
is the feeling I sometimes get when I am watching a movie at the theater. I want
to get up and leave because the film is so boring/bad, yet I cannot leave
because I have an obligation to watch the whole thing in order to write a fair
review. This movie is not about my dilemma at the movie theater. Instead it is
another piece in the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Separation game. This film is
more of a caged animal fear of being trapped, not the fear I was describing.
Finally, the movie is far better as it is than it would have been if it had been
a movie about my trapped feeling. The
film starts with Hickey (Bacon, Hollow Man) wrapping up a kidnapping that he and
his two partners pulled off. This is the second kidnapping operation they have
done in which they use a plan that they can’t deviate from in order to not
screw-up and get caught. It is also the second in which they have collected
$250k and returned the child safely. Now six months later Hickey and company set
their sights on the Jennings family, a rich couple from the Portland, Oregon
area that has a young daughter named Abby (Dakota Fanning, I Am
Sam). So Hickey
and his cousin Marvin (Pruitt Taylor Vince, Nurse
Betty) go to the Jennings
house where the husband, Dr. Will (Stuart Townsend, Queen of the
Damned), has
just left for Seattle. Marvin takes young Abby off to a cabin in the woods where
they hope no one will find them while Hickey stays behind to deliver the news to
the very attractive Mrs. Karen Jennings (Charlize Theron, Sweet
November). When
Will arrives at his hotel room in Seattle, where he is in town for a medical
convention, Hickey’s wife Cheryl (Courtney Love, 200
Cigarettes) delivers the
news to Will, and so the game begins. The three kidnappers trying to get their
money (with hints that Hickey really wants something else) while the three
victims feel trapped, but they still try to outsmart their captors. A
few others in the film are Gary Chalk and Steve Rankin. Greg Iles is responsible
for writing the film, which he based on his own novel 24 Hours. Luis
Mandoki directs the surprisingly suspenseful picture. Generally
speaking I love Kevin Bacon as an actor (I don’t think he should be in a band
though) and don’t really care for Charlize Theron as an actress (maybe I’d
like her better as a porn star). Both did fine with their roles. There was some
good suspense, lots of sexual innuendo, and even a good action-packed final
scene. Though some things were a little predictable, I still give Trapped seven
couches out of ten.
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