When M. Night Shyamalan releases a new film, all film fans probably line up at least one big twist The director revealed perhaps the biggest twist in his 16th feature film Trap: No Way Out in the first trailer. It turns out that the main character, a family man who attends a mega pop star’s concert with his young daughter, is actually a serial killer and the gig is a trap to catch him.
Despite this premise, the plot of Shyamalan’s entertaining thriller still takes enough wild turns to perhaps even become confusing towards the end. We will explain the ending of Trap below.
In the trap finale, events escalate and a psycho reference drops in
The initial situation from the trap trailer, in which the wanted killer Cooper (Josh Hartnett) has to find his way out of the concert grounds without his daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) exposing him, only covers a little less than half of the film’s running time.
As the story progresses, Cooper tells pop star Lady Raven about his identity so that he can leave the arena with Riley in the singer’s private limousine. The walking Taylor Swift allusion, however, rebels against the Butcher and even gets Cooper to to the perpetrator’s family home. Besides Cooper and Riley, there is also his wife Rachel (Alison Pill) and son Logan (Lochlan Ray Miller).
After a maneuver in which Lady Raven grabs the killer’s cell phone, locks it in the bathroom, and starts a livestream to track down the location of Cooper’s current victim, the killer is forced to flee with her in tow.
You can watch another trap trailer here:
Trap: No Way Out – Trailer 2 (German) HD
In public, Cooper manages to escape from the FBI by further disguising himself. When he returns home and confronts his wife, it turns out that she has long been aware of his double life as a serial killer knew.
At first she suspected him of having an affair, but then she followed him into one of the empty houses where he kills and disposes of his victims. Here Rachel left a piece of the concert ticket receipt, which put the FBI on Cooper’s trail and set the rest of the trap in motion.
As the plot progresses, we also learn more about Cooper’s personality and characteristics, such as his obsessive-compulsive disorder, which results in a noticeable need for order.
Cooper also seems to have a Trauma from his relationship with his mother suffered, which he still encounters in visions. A particularly scary one, which is clearly based on the relationship between Norman Bates and his mother in Alfred Hitchock’s thriller milestone Psycho from 1960, appears to him again in the trap finale.
At the end of Trap, Josh Hartnett’s Butcher is caught – or not
In the final scenes of the Shyamalan thriller, Hartnett’s killer is taken away by the special forces and put into a police car. There he awaits his fate in handcuffs. But Trap is not quite over yet.
The final moments pick up the brief moment that happened just before. Before Cooper is taken into the vehicle, he picks up Riley’s bike, which is lying on the ground in the garden. When the camera moves towards the bike again at the end and lingers there, it can be seen that a Spoke from the tire is missing.
Cut to Cooper using the spoke he smuggled into the vehicle to free himself from his bonds. He laughs as if he can’t believe his own luck or skill, and the Trap credits roll.
Whether Trap 2 will come It is not yet known whether Shyamalan even has a sequel to the film in mind.