The Twist in M. Night Shyamalan's Trap Explained 

Were you a fan of the twist?

The twist was he trapped us into watching his daughter do a concert for an hour.

I thought the twist was going to be that his daughter was the true killer and he just loved her enough to try to cover for her... not that it was just a framing device to give M's daughter an hour long concert and for her to be the hero...

Trapping 30,000 women and teenage girls in a stadium with a serial killer based on a tip with no idea of what the killer looks like is peak stupidity.

So, the twist is... There is no twist? 😢

Anyone else leave the movie feeling that Cooper is a new villain in the Unbreakable universe?

A better twist would have been that he wasn't actually the Butcher, but just another random serial killer, but was afraid that as the police were searching, he'd get caught in the same web. Then he figures out who the real Butcher is, and blackmails him to help him escape. The butcher reluctantly agrees, but lays his own trap, where Josh ends up taking the fall, and the butcher escapes kidnapping his daughter. grim ending but hell ya.

Haven’t see the film but i think a cool twist would be if Josh Harnett was indeed a serial killer (but not this Butcher killer) so then he takes down the Butcher killer and looks like a hero (while he is in fact still a serial killer himself) 🤷‍♂️

Trap had a really strong setup (no pun intended). But it needed just a wee bit of more brainstorming to further the plot. The movie didn’t know where to go. The first half or as long as the movie was restricted inside the concert was amazing! The moment the story shifts outside, there is no trap! The concert was supposed to be a trap to catch Cooper, the moment he’s out he has won! If only they could’ve included the people inside the concert to help the fbi or maybe included some backstory of Cooper’s victim to the plot and still made him win. Then the movie would’ve really taken off!

The ending became silly with him always escaping

We knew Cooper was the killer from the commercials. The biggest issue is that the wife thinks he might be the killer, but doesn't decide to give a picture of him to the cops. Something that would have made it easier to catch him using plains clothes officers instead of stuffing the arena full of police and FBI agents with full battle rattle.

SPOILER ALERT: the premise is dumb as h*ll. If the mom/wife suspected he was the killer and collaborated with the FBI on a sting operation, why would a loving mom in essence let her teen daughter go to this concert with him with a sting operation where he could freak out and is liable to do anything to evade being apprehended like take the daughter hostage? So you use your own daughter as bait, not to mention you endanger the lives of 20,000 concertgoers. Great writing lol

The twist is he gave way too much time to his daughter, had no business in the story after they left the concert

The twist was that we needed to sit through the concert as well

The real twist is when I thought I just farted in the theater but it started running down my leg.

A better version of the story should’ve been having Josh Harnett play different characters, all trying to escape the concert because they think it’s for them and have every character up until the last being unsuccessful/a red herring and the antics to escaping escalating to an escape.

The problem with an M. Night Shyamalan movie is. . .HIS FIRST MOVIE WAS A MASTERPIECE! With that said, "Trap" was far from a failure. IMO, the top 3 things about the movie were, 1. discovering Saleka Night Shyamalan! I'm buying that music! I loved every single song she sang; 2. the return of Josh Hartnett! Was that supposed to be a dad bod when he took his shirt off? Josh is like almost 50 years old. He could give Channing Tatum a run for his money as the next Magic Mike! 3. I love surprise casting. It was a hoot seeing Hayley Mills. As an African American, Sonya Massey shown being murdered by a cop in her own kitchen after calling the police to her home because she thought an intruder was outside her house, was devastating to watch. So, in the movie, when a serial killer is tased by 4 different cops, allowed to fiddle with a bicycle, then put in the back of a police van ALONE. . .I just thought. . .must be nice to have white privilege. Anyway, I digress. I'm glad that I saw it. It's worth the price of admission. I look forward to the next M. Night Shyamalan movie!

The twist was he was the killer. And marketing should never given away this in the trailers. Audiences should have gone in thinking Josh was the hero. Then bam -- he's the bad guy? Imagine starting the movie and having all your preconceived notions thrown out in 15mins. Big, big miss by marketing.

The twist was Cooper outing himself to Lady Raven and forcing her hand, instead of trying to stealthily escape the concert.

Cooper acts like the killer straight away. Then he is the killer. Whoa! Crazy twist.

I hated this movie's trailer. The idea that the FBI has setup a sting to capture one of their top ten most wanted, only to allow the chance at some dumb merch vendor to just ruin the whole thing by blabbing to some rando (who, uh oh, just happens to b the guy they're looking for) is so so so stupid... There's no way the FBI would not have replaced the event staff with all of their own people... No... way...

Does Shyamalan realize just about every concert in existence including T Swift DOESN'T begin and end during the day time lmao wtf

My thoughts while watching: - ok this a pretty cool concept - catchy song, but why’s it playing so long? - entertaining so far; Josh has become a great actor - another full song? Ok, sure.. - can’t really see what it’s building towards, but I’m excited for a twist! - oh.. we’re out of the venue now, this has lost some appeal - the wife is gonna be in on it, right - right..? - huh.. underwhelming but I guess it’s just a bit of character building for the “Glass/Split” universe - I guess not.. 4/10, started really well but ultimately finished extremely underwhelmed and missed a ton of great opportunities.

Ending should have been Cooper hugging his daughter, and she slips him the wheel spoke, and he slips her a usb drive We re-play the scene of the mom asking the detective what the early signs of Cooper’s insanity were, and she repeats that the signs may have been visible in early childhood but never again after. We then see repeated shots of Riley acting strange during earlier moments of the concert, and show flashbacks of her acting out at school, threatening and scaring the “bully” girl and showing there is more meaning to that sub-plot. We then see Cooper’s daughter finding all of her father’s remaining safehouses on a computer via the thumb drive. One is highlighted over the others. We splice the ending of him getting free of his chains with seeing the daughter open a door to one of the safehouses, where the mom is waiting with a woman tied up in a chair. Mom turns the chair to reveal Lady Raven, tied up and crying. And we cut to Cooper laughing like he does at the very end.

I wouldn't be suprised if it takes place in the same universe as split ,unbreakable etc.. he shows amazing strength when the cops take him down, tazed twice, drugged and still is able to unleash a force to take down an officer and almost crush with his hands. Also in the video footage of the abduction, he pulls his victim in the van with unhuman strength.

I’ll always be an M Night fan. Whatever movie he puts out, I’m going to see it

I wasn't wowed by the film but Josh Harnett is so watchable. Good to see him back doing more movies. He's a great actor and deserves to be seen more. Oppenheimer pushed him back into the big spotlight.

The twist is there’s 2 serial killers there and the other gets got and ours in our Mandela verse escapes Scottfree

When they revealed the somewhat "twist" in the trailer (him being the serial killer) I thought there would be a bigger twist. But nah 😂

I saw somewhere online that M had written a direct sequel to Signs and has a script done and ready to film. I really really hope we end up getting a continuation of the first film and that it’s done right. Signs is considered one of the best films ever made and if done right can cement M Knight as one of the most iconic filmmakers of his generation

Once again the trailer spoiled the fun. If we had found out he was the killer while watching the movie would have been much more exciting

The funny thing for me is I accidentally skipped the part where he checks his victim in the toilet room through his phone, so I didn't know he was the Butcher immediately. It made me root for him throughout the concert, but I still had doubts until his private conversation with Lady Raven. I knew that I was watching the film on the perspective of a killer.

Wait, there was a twist?

The twist should be like his wife should be the butcher . Mom controls the butcher in the same way that is why he has two split personalities. the wife knows about this and then controls his husband and goes on with the killing spree with the help of his husband . But the husband doesn't want to reveal his wife's identity as a serial killer if he revealed Riley's life will be spoiled so he accepts as butcher himself and gets surrender

I didn't come up with this but totally agree. Better ending would've had Cole Sear got the information from one of Cooper's previous kills. Throw Haley Joel Osment in as the mid-credit scene and you have a classic on your hands.

He could have just walked out at the end of the concert and been home with his feet up. They didn't know what he looked like.

My top five favorite M. Night Shyamalan movies are the Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, Split and Glass. My honorable mentions are Old and Trap. ❤❤❤❤

The movie’s “twists” aren’t as massive as the Sixth Sense. The twist isn’t “it was X the whole time.” The whole idea that he’s the killer is made extremely clear from the start.

I DON'T MIND AT ALL M.Night did a privilege to picked his own daughter to played in his own movie. But I DO MIND when her screen time is too much, where the times can be used for showing more tricks from Butcher in how he killing people, how he lure the victims, how he lives a double live, how Josh Harnett acts switching character, how's Butcher past trauma. Shame, this movie has so much potential especially for a long comeback actor like Josh Harnett.

I thought the twist was going to be.. once they had the famous singer in the house, the whole family adopts her and changes her look so nobody would recognize her because they are all crazy and in on it all along.

Wow, love it! It totally worked because as I was watching I was having very conflicting feelings about the fact that I wanted him to succeed and escape the police... 😅

I enjoyed it for the most part, just thought it dragged on a bit with Houdini escapes, just made it a lil silly

Nobody is talking about the footage of him kidnapping Sebastian. No human could snatch another human and shut the door that quick. This has to be related to split and if it’s not later revealed in another movie that’s dumb as fuck

The "Twist" was.. the trailer was a million times better than the movie.

i just finished it. It was one of his better films. I really enjoyed it. The tunnel was another twist.

Biggest twist was that the movie was going on further than what trailers had been showing, which was kind of nice cause now it felt like the film wasn’t spoiled through trailers for change

I see many people didnt get the point of a movie. Point was looking from a perspective of a killer and will he or not escape and how. I loved the movie!

The twist was, as he said several times, that HE was in control and set traps for us in thinking what things meant and where they would lead so he didn’t do any of them

It's that's smart. I think a bunch of us were hoping he was innocent because we thought that was the twist. Like maybe the wife was actually the butcher. It showed us that we can we obtuse towards serial killers even if we have live footage of it.

The twist is, the crippled guy was actually Kyzor Soze

Naw, it wasn’t the cleaning fluid that tipped her off. She says it’s when she saw him lie so effortlessly to someone. That made her realize he could be someone dangerous. She also knew he wouldn’t hurt Riley or their son because his doting dad persona was a real one.

I'm just curious if Trap is in the same universe as Unbreakable since Cooper shows a heightened endurance from taser guns and heightened strength when he grabbed Spencer using one arm.

Even if no twistI still enjoy the movie and was rooting for cooper the whole movie

The twist is, that there is no twist, but we're all expecting a twist the whole time.

I would like to see this movie, but by the trailer and this video, the premise of trying to capture a serial killer in concert is not realistic. They would be putting the public in harms away; he has a better chance sneaking by in that large of a crowd, and what would it cost the police to pull this off

Here's what another twist comes in if you notice the colors in the film where red and white Cooper was in red lady Raven was in white it represented Good and Evil Cooper with evil lady Raven was good so then when the time came for him to escape and he threatened her she reversed it back at him and he didn't even see that coming so basically she was the opposite of him And this movie was not to promote her music career if anybody was paying attention to the interviews she says she only wrote the songs for the movie she had no intention of being in it her father suggested she should be the performer of the film and these are all original songs and not a copy of any other artists all of the music film belongs to the studio so she can't perform none of these songs outside of the Trap movie promotion because these songs belongs to the studio that the movie is produced by they own the rights to it And if you was paying attention she has worked behind the scenes on his movies before and she was a singer long before this movie even happened and she already had a good night with career long before this even started the reason why people are pissed off is because all their theories were wrong and the fact that the movie didn't get ruin like they wanted now they bashing it And if you notice it wasn't just based on the whole entire concert that she was performing because if it was she would be in the movie A lot more than she was in it less

i thought the twist was the guy who worked the merch found out it was him and set him up to get caught by telling him how not to

The twist: The whole movie was to give his daughter a career boost. Why the two movies mixed in to one, M. Night Shamalamadingdong? "No one would watch a movie about my daughter otherwise and she would, _GASP!,_ have to earn her own success." - M. Night Shitthebedagain

I don’t know if it’s a great movie, but you won’t be bored watching this.

A good twist would have been that when revealing himself to raven, she too reveals herself as a serial killer. OR, his wife was also a serial killer. When raven was describing the butcher to his family, i got the vibes she was tipping him off with all the ways he was a suspect. I dont think you can expect a 6th sense/ the village twist from him anymore.

The daughter should've been the killer. He should've been the cleaner.

The trap was people sitting in the theater that paid 30 bucks for this!

I actually thought he was a butcher trying to catch another bigger butcher or something like that 😂 only to make himself look like a hero at the end. Idk, Shyamalan movies always look boring at the end.

After watching the trailer I knew Cooper was gonna be the killer. M Night Shyamalan plot twists are so predictable now 😂

I would prefer Rachel is a serial killer as well as the plot twist. Working together with her husband in killing people😂

In his head. His mother's freed him at the end. That laugh in the police man. This dude is going to do some wrecking.

Idk for some reason I feel like Josh kind of gives me a "human Michael Meyers" vibe because he kept escaping/ surviving. And maybe also because he was in H20, and he would technically be Michael's nephew. Shyamalan could def spin into that somehow if he got the rights &/or did a second film.

i popped off when he got away in the end, I really liked the movie

If this is the level kind of twist Shyamalan's fans are happy about, they shouldn't watch Korean Thriller Movies, I don't think they can handle the mind bending twist in the endings.

I was thoroughly entertained 🔥

I don't know why you think he will "likely escape police custody". He's in the back of the police van, locked from the outside being followed by three other SWAT vehicles. I guess they will open the door and he will just magically disappear.

He got escaped from limo when fans obviously see him. Smh

It would have been better if Bruce Willis shows up at the end.

This movie was peculiar af. Often times I found myself thinking: where is this going? Whats a red herring and what isnt? And the end solidified my opinion that this movie is to troll people who know that M Night is famous for movie altering twists. Everything that is shown which could open up backstory/future paths is always incomplete (Raven's asthma, the milk, m night's cameo). The tone of the movie is also shifting constantly. This movie enraged me because M Night knew exactly what he was doing. This is a meta movie really. This movie is the equivalent of a poorly performed lapdance. Of a dick tease. It leaves you craving more until you realized that was it's intent all along. Even Cooper making it out by the end with goofy ass music. Raven just breaking all tension by starting a god damn livestream. No action by cooper as the butcher being shown ever to make you question if he even is a Butcher given that the most damning thing they ever shown from him was that he kept Spencer in his basement, which is hideous but not something worthy of the title of butcher. So yeah, im pissed, but I also can't really fault the movie because I got played. M Night knows exactly what he did.

I really didn’t like that he pretty much just ratted himself out to Lady Raven,Like why? He said they caught him but they really didn’t he just snitched on himself. Like if he had walked past those cops how would they know he was the killer? And he had his daughter as extra cover? Eh.

If she was right at the crime scene, she would have known he’s a murderer, so why not just call the police instead of just leaving the concert receipt?

So he buys the ticket to a concert that is ONLY setup last minute as a trap to catch him based on an anonymous tip? Josh is great, but the story is full of nonsense (even after a fair amount of suspension of disbelief...)

I just saw the movie today. The set up was good, but the ending was super disappointing. And total waste of actress Hayley Mills. Looking forward to seeing her, and she barely had a part.

i think this was a great movie and most the critiques ppl have for it are the same ones ppl have for every m night movie like- what did you expect? things to change? did u expect it to NOT be a m night movie? like?? and if you felt like you just listened to his daughters music the whole time then imo you just payed too much attention to the music than to the plot like, idk what to tell you cause for me i was not registering the music unless it was directly shown to me cause most of the time I was paying attention to THE PLOT like why did yall come into a movie including a concert then got upset that there was a concert included ultimately this is no where near as bad as avatar- a movie making viewers annoyed and angry is still better than making them fall asleep in the first 5 minutes, and beyond that the other half the audience was extremely entertained so once again- this movis is NOWhere Near avatar, this was just another classic m night movie, i loved it cuz i love m night and im not expecting him to change all of the sudden, and i personally loved the series of mini twists instead of one big one, just made me constantly be shocked or entertained- and its kind of goofy silly how conveniently he ends up escaping everytime but that doesnt take away the entertaining factor, just makes me more entertained cuz im like "again?" i hope theres a sequel where hes just obsessed with getting his daughter back idk idk

Movie watcher: This is so stupid. Serial killer: So thats how u escape. M night: You're welcome 🤫

He left proof of the concert ticket at his last crime scene? I did see the movie and still don’t understand that! How many concert venues still use paper tickets?? Everything is over the phone now

I give it a 7- out of 10 it could have been better with a twist

could someone explain to me why revel himself so easily to lady raven ? this point doesn't make any sense to me

Cold part that he got set up by his wife…. But non of the police or anybody knew what he looked like lmao HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE…. I’m still gonna always watch a M.Night movie tho

So the wife thinks her husband is a serial killer. Instead of having police take him in for questioning, they let him take his daughter to a public event, putting everyone at the concert in danger.

I totally thought the character’s daughter was going to be the next Butcher, open ended movie idea.

I got to watch the movie in a empty theatres with my mother great movie

What a twist!

There was no twist. This was pretty straightforward and aligned with the implications the trailer gave us. Not a bad movie but nothing to gripping. Nothing like the Sixth Sense or his unbrrakable/split/Glass movies. This is a “wait for streaming” movie for sure. The concert concept did t really add anything to the story. It felt like it was a movie intended to showcase M’s daughter’s singing career and the Butcher story as the background story. If anything, the music was more a distraction. This one is a miss although I love that Josh H is in it. His grinning blank eyes were unsettling

Trap is okay.

Aw yeah, yeah, like in The Sixth Sense you find out that the dude in that hair piece the whole time, that's Bruce Willis the whole movie

It was a fun movie. The girl can sing.

NO SPOILERS, WATCH THE POST CREDIT IT MADE THE MOVIE FORE 10/10

So the wife knew it was him, told the FBI but somehow the law enforcers seems to be unable to locate him or even put a face on him during the concert. Weak af

The twist is there is no twist

They should have made Lady Raven the killer and Cooper as an undercover cop trying to get to her

There was no twist, what the story discribes is simply narrative.

Who is more reckless and stupid? The mother that suspects her husband is a killer and risks her daughter, the police that risk thousands of people or the guy that informs the killer that the whole thing is a trap to arrest a killer. Oh boy...

There's only 4 movies I like from M. Night, the rest meh. His twist ending is getting old.

This is just ADS for Shyamalan's daughter🤦‍♂️ and that's the trap😂