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I absolutely do not like Kevin Bacon. But Stuart Townsend and Courtney Love was great. It was a really good movie.

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Posted mar 23, 2007 10:47 am pt

• [+] Variety
  
  70
  A pretty skillfully handled domestic thriller about a criminal activity that, while always upsetting, is especially noxious now due to the too many recent tragic and highly publicized instances of it.

  by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  63
  A tightly drawn, propulsive thriller with some pleasingly unexpected kinks in the tale and a couple of believable performances from Charlize Theron and Kevin Bacon in the leads.

  by Megan Lehmann | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  50
  By the time the high-octane ending arrived I didn't even care what happened to the kid.

  by J.R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  50
  Mandoki's a pro, but a juiceless one, with only enough energy to reach the finish line, which becomes the viewer's goal as well.

  by Chuck Wilson | Read Full Review »
• [+] New Times (L.A.)
  
  50
  Another disposable kidnapping thriller.

  by Gregory Weinkauf | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  50
  Trapped does have a fine ensemble of actors and, except for what may be the most outrageously idiotic and improbable ending in a few years, is not that bad a movie.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  50
  Pointless little kidnapping thriller.

  by Stephen Holden | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  50
  Luis Mandoki's brisk hack job pushes no more buttons than Connie Chung Tonight -- though, for better or worse, it's perverse enough to stage the traumatic event as a spouse swap.

  by Dennis Lim | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  50
  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.

  by Robert K. Elder | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
  50
  The first half of Luis (Angel Eyes) Mandoki's new thriller is as whiteknuckle, nerve-wracking as they come. The second is such a mishmash of overblown action and gaping plotholes, it's hard to believe it's the work of the same director.

  by Rick Kisonak | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  42
  The most frightening sight, though, is that of Theron and Bacon, good actors trapped in the muck of making a living.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  38
  There is no pleasure in watching a child suffer. Just embarrassment and a vague sense of shame. Watching Trapped simply makes us feel guilty.

  by Stephen Cole | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  38
  Bacon makes an appropriately detestable villain; unfortunately, he's the most interesting character here. As for Love, well, this puts her one career rung closer to ''Hollywood Squares.''

  by Ty Burr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  30
  Not the kind of unwatchable mess you might assume a film withheld from reviewers' scrutiny would be. It is, however, something equally unfortunate: a mess you'd rather not be watching.

  by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  20
  A tone of lurid idiocy permeates Trapped, a Z-grade woman-in-peril thriller starring scenery-chewing Kevin Bacon.

  by Nathan Rabin | Read Full Review »