Fantastic fun with a career best performance from Josh Hartnett -- and to any people who might be like "Has Josh Hartnett given a good performance before?" I say begone before somebody drops a house on you. (Also go watch Penny Dreadful and wash your mouths out with soap.) I was honestly totally enthralled by M. Night riffing hard on De Palma -- not just the very obvious diopter shot but this is very clearly his version of Snake Eyes -- and above all just having fun. I think this period of his career, since Old really, will be looked back on with great admiration for how much fun he seems to be having making movies right now. I know he's been compared to Hitchcock his entire career but he has been earning it for the way his movies are pure entertainment machines that're not at all concerned with making "sense" in a logical way over them just being engines for cinematic playfulness. I had a dumb grin on my face the entire run of Trap, from Hartnett's nerdy girl-dadding to Kid Cudi's hilarious turn -- how was he the only person who recognized what a stone-fox they had in their mix? And then for absolutely no reason Shyamalan has Josh take his shirt off for the last act. Pure joy. This movie's pure silly delight.
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