Trapped (2002)

	Directed by: Luis Mandoki	COUNTRY USA GENRE Crime/Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE Trapped RUNNING TIME 106 minutes
	Produced by: Mark Canton Luis Mandoki Mimi Polk Gitlin
	Written by (based on his own novel): Greg Iles

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Karen Jennings	Charlize Theron
Cheryl Hickey	Courtney Love
Dr. Will Jennings	Stuart Townsend
Joe Hickey	Kevin Bacon
Abigail (Abby) Jennings	Dakota Fanning
Marvin	Pruitt Taylor Vince	½
Joan Evans	Colleen Camp	-

Review

The outrageousness of Kevin Bacon's performance combined with Luis Mandoki's CSI-style direction makes you wonder whether this kidnapping movie was meant to be some sort of spoof, but let's hope not for the sake of the straight and effective work by Charlize Theron and little Dakota Fanning. They both treat the material with the seriousness that it probably should have been also by the filmmakers. Trapped has unattractive lighting and cinematography, but behind the bumpy direction and sometimes borderline parodic scenes, the middle part reveals an interesting human story which does warrant some of the suspense the filmmakers aimed for. That is until we're left with a chaotic ending marred by just about every thriller cliché imaginable. More or less a wasted opportunity.