"You have to laugh to keep the deep darkies in a cave." Shyamalan's most audacious film presents a bizarre mix of knowing irony, youthful naivete, mental illness, comedic horror and tonal shifts, yet everything seamlessly works.

Joachim Trier's cinematic technique of connecting character psychology with visual environments has a meaningful lineage that can be traced back to one of the pioneers of the French New Wave: Agnès Varda.

Dag Sødtholt har igjen gått analytisk til verks på en M. Night Shyamalan-film, nå kinoaktuelle Trap: "Great entertainment is provided in an audacious film where a virtuoso, multi-layered performance by Josh Hartnett shall seduce us into accepting Trap as an arena of pure playfulness."