Re: TRAP

On Nov 3, 2024 at 2:48:47 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

 
A father brings his 12-year-old daughter to a pop diva's concert,
unaware that police have it targeted with a manhunt.  TRAP (on MAX) is a
PG-13 thriller from M. Night Shyamalan that defies credibility so often
that tension never finds a foothold.  Still, Shyamalan does know how to
keep boredom at bay.  Somewhat recommended,

It was decent as a thriller but they threw any semblance of realism out the
window to accomplish it.

The idea that they could legally subject any adult male who was in attendance
at the concert to forcible interrogation, literally pulling them out of the
stands in front of their kids and ruining an experience that-- if the allusion
to Taylor Swift concerts is accurate-- likely cost them many hundreds, if not
more than a thousand dollars, and which their children would have been
anticipating for the better part of a year and that they could do all this
without repercussion, is laughable.

I mean, it's a good chance that there could be cops, federal agents, lawyers,
judges, etc. all in that group of 3000 men that they were lining up en masse
at the exits and refusing to let them leave and forcing them into tents to be
interrogated by FBI agents. Or just normal citizen who know their rights. Any
or all of them could just say, "I'm invoking my 5th and 6th Amendment rights
and refuse to answer questions from police." Then what? Did the FBI think they
could continue to hold them prisoner? Even holding any of them up to that
point without individual particularized suspicion opens them up to massive
legal liability. Continuing to do so after they've invoked only compounds the
size of the settlement the government will have to pay.

The whole setup was a complete legal farce, but if you can suspend your
disbelief over that, it was a decent enough movie.