Trapped 2002

Critics score:
18 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: 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. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A reasonably efficient mechanism, but it offers few surprises and finds its stars slumming in territory they should have avoided. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: 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. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The movie is a negligible work of manipulation, an exploitation piece doing its usual worst to guilt-trip parents. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: There is no pleasure in watching a child suffer. Just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Feels like the faceless product of a Hollywood screenwriting computer program, one that provide everything but personality and a brain. Read more

Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Adapting his novel 24 Hours, first-time screenwriter Greg Iles has neglected to include in his plotting a sense of impending doom, a lack of purpose that isn't helped by the arid filmmaking style of director Luis Mandoki. Read more

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Read more

Todd McCarthy, Variety: Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Brisk hack job. Read more