MOVIE REVIEW: We see if M. Night Shyamalan's latest 'Trap' lives up to its killer premise

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There ain’t many directors out there with a back catalogue as wildly varied on the quality scale as M. Night Shyamalan. And, unfortunately, Trap is more in line with Old and The Happening than The Sixth Sense or Unbreakable .

Josh Hartnett ( Cooper ) plays serial killer The Butcher who attends a pop concert with his daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) only to discover the entire event is an FBI trap intending to capture the unidentified murderer.

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It seems Shyamalan didn’t really know the answers, though, as his script really struggles to make Cooper and the characters surrounding him act in believable ways.