5/10
Klopka (The Trap) was a "featured torrent" at a film website I frequent, which means it was one of 3 films on the site selected that anyone can grab ratio-free...it's used to promote underrated and underexposed films that you wouldn't ordinarily download. So I grabbed it ages ago, and finally watched it yesterday, and was surprised at its ordinariness. The plot is rote fare: parents of a sick child can't afford to pay for the necessary operation to save his life. An ad is placed in the newspaper and a bad dude comes calling, offering to cover the entire amount if the husband (Mladen) will kill a guy for him. After some internal struggle, Mladen accepts and murders the mark, but the payment never comes. The film's focus alternates between the deterioration of Mladen's family (he keeps his wife entirely in the dark about the hit) and his desperate search for the money. Aside from saying that I've seen a Serbian film besides A Serbian Film, I can't think of much about this movie that'll stick with me. It was well-acted and I applaud it for not taking a "Hollywood approach" to its resolution (be forewarned, the remake rights have been sold), but that's about all.
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