I Watched Netflix’s New Top 10 & I’ve Never Wanted the Protagonists to Pay More

While looking for a movie to watch, I decided to turn to good old reliable Netflix. More specifically, I looked at the top 10 movies streaming in the US, and that’s when I stumbled upon the 2025 action-thriller that just debuted on the platform, Trap House. 

At the onset, I thought Trap House would have everything I wanted in a movie. It stars Dave Bautista (The Wrecking Crew, Afterburn), who has made a name for himself in the action genre, it has an interesting drug cartel premise, and it wasn’t a terribly long film, lowering my chances of getting too distracted and trailing off. Sadly, despite all the things the movie had going for it, I found myself finishing it with one lasting impression: The teenage protagonists were infuriating, and I never wanted the “good guys” to go to jail more. 

'Trap House' Has the Most Annoying Teenagers … Ever

Allow this to serve as your spoiler alert. At the heart of Trap House is a story about Cody Seale (Jack Champion), a reckless teenager who believes he and his group of naive friends can be a new age version of Robin Hood and his Merry Men (and Women). However, Cody’s idea of robbing the rich to give to the poor is stealing from the drug cartel that his DEA father, Ray Seale (Bautista), and his fellow agents have been closely following. Although Cody initially thinks he’s being noble in stealing the money to help his friend’s family out of a financial bind, Cody eventually wants to just get the cash to line his own pockets. 

From the very early stages of this idiotic plan being hatched, I was peeved. Cody and friends had absolutely no experience pulling off robberies, let alone stealing from a dangerous cartel. They assumed that with their parents being DEA agents, somehow their parents’ experience would just pass along to them when going up against dangerous criminals. Clearly, they were wrong as the teens’ spree of robberies ended in one of them being concussed and kidnapped, and Cody himself being blackmailed by the cartel. Oh, and all the teens were placed in the line of gunfire and could have died. 

The deeper Cody led his pals into a life of crime, the more irritated I got with him. Not one single robbery he pulled off went without a hitch, and in every one, he narrowly escaped with his life. Which prompted the very loud question in my mind, “What is wrong with you [Cody]?”

With all that being said, the most frustrating thing about all of this is that neither Cody nor his high school accomplices faced any real consequences. None of them is arrested for the very least obstruction of justice, and viewers don’t even see the parents discipline their children for being so stupid. In fact, Cody ends the movie in the DEA Training Academy with hopes of being an official agent. If you guess that scene left me shaking my head, you’re correct. 

Is There a 'Trap House' Sequel? 

As of publication, an official sequel to the movie has not yet been announced. However, speaking with Movie Web, Bautista (who is also a producer on the original film) stated: 

“And the reason was that I set this film up to be a franchise. And I knew, moving forward, it would be all about the kids. This was always developed to be that. And the first film we would have to establish, you know, the kids and the relationships, but I was always one of the parents to be the backdrop, because I wanted this to be about the kids and move forward with the kids."

So with Trap House being set up for a sequel, another installment may lie in the future. If it continues trending on Netflix, it’s likely that the streaming popularity will help the cause.

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