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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-11-16 (Saturday)
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 12:54:27 -0800
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On 11/17/24 12:05 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

> On Nov 17, 2024 at 10:23:57 AM PST, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> Trap (Max) - This film has almost as many false endings as "The Return
>> of the King" film does!!
>>      I agree that this film is ridiculous (and it's another film partly
>> ruined by the "twist" last scene).
>>      But it is variously entertaining along the way.
>>      Josh Hartnett (it seems like ages since he's headlined a film!)
>> stars as Cooper, an apparently good dad, with a secret! A big secret!!
>>      Cooper takes his teen daughter to a concert - think Taylor Swift
>> crossed with Alicia Keys.
>>      But the entire concert has got insane security/cop presence, and it
>> turns out that's because they are all there to catch a serial killer!
>> Who it turns out is Cooper!!
>>      With the entire place surrounded, will Cooper be able to figure out
>> a way out of the concert with his daughter without getting caught?!
> 
> I couldn't figure out how they were planning on catching the guy anyway. The
> only evidence they had on their suspect was the ticket receipt indicating he
> was going to be at the concert. They didn't know what he looked like, they had
> no fingerprints or DNA-- not that they could compel them from random concert
> attendees anyway-- so what was the point of all this?
> 
> If Cooper had just walked out and then been wrangled into the line with all
> the other men they were questioning, how would he have been caught? He'd just
> answer their basic questions like all the other guys and then walk out the
> other side like all the other guys. At most he'd have to take into account
> that he'd now be on an FBI list of guys who were at the concert, which might
> make getting away with future murders a little more complicated for him, but
> that's about it.
> 
>>      I did like the mid-credits scene here. Heh.
> 
> I don't think I caught that. What happened?

The killer-obsessed shirt-selling dude realized that Cooper was the 
killer, and that he had inadvertently helped Cooper, and ends up cursing 
himself, and then says he can never talk about this to anyone!