Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Python Hyena Trapped (2002): Dir: Luis Mandoki / Cast: Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Pruitt Taylor Vince: Although a husband and wife are victimized due to their kidnapped daughter the real ones trapped are the villains who put too much faith into their recycled scheme. Stuart Townsend is a successful doctor with his trophy wife Charlize Theron. Kevin Bacon and Courtney Love play the villains. They must interact every thirty minutes or their daughter dies, which allows Bacon to remain calm when Theron brandishes a gun. Worthy setup marred by repetitious formula but the climax is exciting. Directed by Luis Mandoki as a much different and certainly better achievement than he had with Message in the Bottle, which is one of the worst films of 1999. The film is fueled with fine performances by Theron and Townsend as the worried parents who pool their resources and reach the expected outcome. Bacon, and Love are terrific as the icy villains who go through the formula but are brought down in the big climax. Pruitt Taylor Vince plays their accomplice who is viewed more as a mindless thug but he desires to harm nobody. It could have addressed control but it teases with possible innuendo between Theron and Bacon. Luckily the screenplay is enjoyable despite flaws and it doesn't become trapped from passable entertainment. Score: 7 / 10

SnoopyStyle Hickey (Kevin Bacon) is the brains behind a team that already completed 4 successful kidnappings. The latest victim is Abby Jennings (Dakota Fanning). Marvin (Pruitt Taylor Vince) takes the little girl to an isolated location. Hickey calling himself Joel tells Karen (Charlize Theron) that he wants 250k in 24 hours. She tells him that Abby is severely asthmatic. The husband Will (Stuart Townsend) is away at a conference and Cheryl (Courtney Love) tells him the plan for him to hand over the money.The setup is pretty simple but it does have its problems. It's up to the actors to sell this premise. Kevin Bacon is a solid villain and Charlize Theron is a great momma bear as his foil. They work well together. Townsend and Love are not quite so good. They are second rate both in scale and in quality. All together, it's a simple thriller that mostly works with a couple of good performances.

Vincent The plot provides a few new twists on the kidnapping theme with a perfect plan hinging on deeper issues on the part of the protagonists.Bacon and Theron are excellent and they have to carry the film since the rest of the cast aren't given very much to do or say which is a bit of a waste but not surprising.My main complaint is that the point where the plan begins to unravel is out of character for the villain and in a way that can't be explained by emotion, this is a necessary plot vehicle but I found it a little disappointing.The ending is a little overdone and silly (the plane bit especially), it would be more appropriate in an action film than a suspenseful thriller.On the whole splitting the film into 3 narratives does detract from the element of suspense, particularly the part with Townsend and Love, and this weakens the impact of the film considerably (drops it from a potential 8 to a 6).Well worth a watch but could have been better.

SteakSalad_101 It was a Thursday night, I was tired, wanted to relax, and didn't want to study for my stupid science test. So I turned on my TV and flipped through the channels, only to find this movie on, a movie I had never heard of before. So I decided to give it a chance. Trapped deals with two extremely smart kidnappers who target rich families and kidnap their children for a $250,000 ransom price. So they target the Jennings: a happy, rich couple with their 6-year-old daughter Abigail. The kidnappers kidnap Abigail and their foolproof plan--which they have executed four times in the past successfully and never been caught--suddenly goes awry as they find out Abigail is highly asthmatic and in addition, the Jennings find out more than the kidnappers want them to know. While one kidnapper forces the mother to act as a prostitute at their house, and the kidnapper's wife holds the father hostage in his hotel room away on a business trip, the Jennings hatch a plan to get Abigail back...but there is more than they perceive to this kidnapping. Trapped is ultimately an EXTREMELY exciting, suspenseful, classic nail-biter flick that is fun to watch on a big screen at night with surround sound. The acting is superb, as well, which is rarely seen these days in a non-popular movie like this one. The one thing I didn't like about this film is the ending, which fell completely flat and was very unsatisfactory. It's a good movie overall, but don't knock yourself out with it.