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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by
There is no pleasure in watching a child suffer. Just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame. Watching Trapped simply makes us feel guilty.
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What are critics saying?
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Luis Mandoki's brisk hack job pushes no more buttons than Connie Chung Tonight -- though, for better or worse, it's perverse enough to stage the traumatic event as a spouse swap.
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New Times (L.A.) by Gregory Weinkauf
Another disposable kidnapping thriller.
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New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Trapped does have a fine ensemble of actors and, except for what may be the most outrageously idiotic and improbable ending in a few years, is not that bad a movie.
30
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Not the kind of unwatchable mess you might assume a film withheld from reviewers' scrutiny would be. It is, however, something equally unfortunate: a mess you'd rather not be watching.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
The most frightening sight, though, is that of Theron and Bacon, good actors trapped in the muck of making a living.
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A tone of lurid idiocy permeates Trapped, a Z-grade woman-in-peril thriller starring scenery-chewing Kevin Bacon.
50
The first half of Luis (Angel Eyes) Mandoki's new thriller is as whiteknuckle, nerve-wracking as they come. The second is such a mishmash of overblown action and gaping plotholes, it's hard to believe it's the work of the same director.
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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Pointless little kidnapping thriller.
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A pretty skillfully handled domestic thriller about a criminal activity that, while always upsetting, is especially noxious now due to the too many recent tragic and highly publicized instances of it.