Review: Trap

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest is reliably messy, fitfully fun.

M. Night Shyamalan has had quite the ride. For three to five years (depending on how you feel about The Village), he was heralded as the next Spielberg or Hitchcock. That run was so critically and financially successful that when Shyamalan stumbled, it was the career equivalent of falling off a mountain. Lady in the Water, The Happening, Last Airbender …