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NUMBERS
Box Office: $6,916,869
VHS Rentals: $4,810,000
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CONSENSUS
With its plot about child kidnapping and endangerment, Trapped is an exploitative thriller, more queasy than suspenseful.
CAST & CREW
Stuart Townsend, Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon
Directed by Luis Mandoki
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SYNOPSIS
The perfect crime is, perhaps, the crime that is never reported. Some criminals seize control of their environment so convincingly, and cover their tracks so effectively that they leave nothing but terrified victims-- so shocked that they retreat into silence, grateful to have their lives back. more...
MPAA RATING
R, violence, language, and sexual content
RUNTIME
1 hour, 46 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Sep 20, 2002
Video: Dec 24, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Columbia Pictures
GENRE
Dramas, Suspense, Thriller, Police, Kidnapping
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "'Es en verdad una pena que Mandoki esté realizando cintas tan malas desde hace algún tiempo, pues talento tiene, pero quién sabe dónde lo tiene escondido.'"
-- Jorge Avila Andrade, MOVIOLA
"It's hard to believe these jokers are supposed to have pulled off four similar kidnappings before."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"A predictable, manipulative stinker. The story passes time until it’s time for an absurd finale of twisted metal, fireballs and revenge."
-- Jeffrey Bruner, DES MOINES REGISTER
 "Trapped won't score points for political correctness, but it may cause parents a few sleepless hours -- a sign of its effectiveness."
-- Paul Clinton, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"The problem with this film is that it’s forced to make its characters idiots in order to advance the plot. Had anyone here done anything remotely intelligent, we all could have stopped watching long ago."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Great character interaction."
-- Matt Easterbrook, MATT'S MOVIE REVIEWS
"What might have been acceptable on the printed page of Iles' book does not translate well to the screen."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
"Trapped presents a frightening and compelling 'What if?' scenario that will give most parents pause. . . . Then, something terrible happens."
-- Forrest Hartman, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
"The smash 'em-up, crash 'em-up, shoot 'em-up ending comes out of nowhere substituting mayhem for suspense."
-- Louis B. Hobson, JAM! MOVIES
"Charlize CHASES Kevin with a GUN. Courtney CHASES Stuart with a CELL PHONE. The sound of GUNFIRE and cell phones RINGING."
-- MaryAnn Johanson, FLICK FILOSOPHER
"Though there are many tense scenes in Trapped, they prove more distressing than suspenseful."
-- Mary Kalin-Casey, REEL.COM
"Un thriller manqué qui tombe sur les nerfs presque dès la première image."
-- Nicolas Lacroix, SHOWBIZZ.NET
"I felt trapped and with no obvious escape for the entire 100 minutes."
-- Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
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"“Trapped” is one of the most hilarious movies that’s hit the big screen this year.
Unfortunately, it’s supposed to be a dramatic thriller."
-- Linda Cook, QUAD CITY TIMES (DAVENPORT, IA)
"A relatively effective little potboiler until its absurd, contrived, overblown, and entirely implausible finale."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
"A direct-to-void release, heading nowhere."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"It comes off as so silly that you wouldn't be surprised if BA, Murdock and rest of the A-Team were seen giving chase in a black and red van."
-- Harry Guerin, RTE INTERACTIVE (DUBLIN, IRELAND)
"The movie is so contrived, nonsensical and formulaic that, come to think of it, the day-old shelf would be a more appropriate location to store it."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"Entirely suspenseful, extremely well-paced and ultimately... dare I say, entertaining!"
-- JoBlo, JOBLO'S MOVIE EMPORIUM
"The actors must indeed be good to recite some of this laughable dialogue with a straight face."
-- Todd Jorgenson, DENTON RECORD CHRONICLE (TX)
"What started out as a taut contest of wills between Bacon and Theron, deteriorates into a protracted and borderline silly chase sequence."
-- Rick Kisonak, FILM THREAT
"A movie that's held captive by mediocrity. Not bad, but not all that good. Bacon keeps things interesting, but don't go out of your way to pay full price."
-- James E. Laczkowski, EFILMCRITIC.COM
"Never engaging, utterly predictable and completely void of anything remotely interesting or suspenseful."
-- David Levine, FILMCRITIC.COM
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ROTTEN 18%
Avg. Rating: 3.7/10 |
"There is no pleasure in watching a child suffer. Just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame."
-- Stephen Cole, GLOBE AND MAIL
"Splashes its drama all over the screen, subjecting its audience and characters to action that feels not only manufactured, but also so false you can see the filmmakers' puppet strings."
-- Robert K. Elder, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"A reasonably efficient mechanism, but it offers few surprises and finds its stars slumming in territory they should have avoided."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Brisk hack job."
-- Dennis Lim, VILLAGE VOICE
"Indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"For a good chunk of its running time, Trapped is an effective and claustrophobic thriller."
-- Frank Scheck, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"The movie is a negligible work of manipulation, an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Not really bad so much as distasteful: We need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"True to its title, it traps audiences in a series of relentlessly nasty situations that we would pay a considerable ransom not to be looking at."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A tightly drawn, propulsive thriller."
-- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST
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"Neatly constructed thriller."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
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* Mouse over a tomato icon for a publication's original rating. Original rating not available for every publication.
* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Trapped" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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