Review: 'Trap' quickly dives off the cliff from disappointment to disaster

The plot has more holes than a Swiss cheese eating contest.

I don't blame M. Night Shyamalan fans for wanting to get a taste of his latest film, "Trap", in the hope that the director might return to the glory days of "The Sixth Sense," "Unbreakable," "Signs" and even "Split" and make a classic thriller again.

For starters, the so-called master of the "twist" ending gives away that game almost immediately as we realize that Cooper , the doting dad taking his daughter Riley to a pop concert, is really "The Butcher," an infamous serial killer, and that the law has set up this concert to trap him in the act of... I still can't figure it out.

As daddy wanders the halls looking for a way to escape, he meets souvenir seller Jamie , who tells him the cops are setting a trap and that the password for insiders is "Hamilton."

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