2025 • Aura Entertainment
Rated: R
Length: 1 hr 41min
Action ~ Crime ~ Thriller
Director: Michael Dowse
Writers: Gary Scott Thompson and Tom O’Connor.
Actors: Dave Bautista, Jack Champion, Sophia Lillis, Kate del Castillo, Whitney Peak, Zaire Adams, Blu del Barrio, Tony Dalton, and Bobby Cannavale.
This isn’t a raid, it’s a reckoning.
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Trap House (2025) – Review
DEA Agents Ray Seale (Dave Bautista) and Andre Washburn (Bobby Cannavale) are leading a raid on a Cartel Drug tunnel on the Texas/Mexico border near El Paso Texas. The raid does not go well, the cartel have wired the tunnel with explosives and the DEA Team narrowly miss getting caught in the explosion. To top that off, the Cartel has a sniper across the border and starts shooting at the DEA Agents. Ray Seale is grazed in the neck by a bullet and Agent Padilla is shot and killed. The entire DEA Team is devastated by the loss of Agent Padilla, as well as the DEA Agents families and their children.
Cody Seale (Jack Champion), Deni Matthews (Sophia Lillis), Yvonne Reynolds (Whitney Peak), Kyle Albright (Zaire Adams) and Jesse Padilla (Blu del Barrio) attend High School together in El Paso, Texas. They are all children of DEA Agents working together in El Paso’s DEA Office. They are a tight knit bunch who all share the drama of being the kid of a DEA Agent, never knowing when something might happen to their parents. Jesse’s father’s death has devastated the community and their tight little circle. Jesse breaks the news to his friends that, since the DEA Death Benefits Package doesn’t pay that much, he and his Mom are going to have to move away to live with his Aunt.
Cody Seale is Ray Seale’s son and he is very upset that the DEA retrieved all that money from the cartel, and Jesse and his family have to move away because the DEA doesn’t pay enough. Frustrated and upset, Cody devises a plan and tells the other DEA kids about it. He wants to use the DEA’s Intel (provided by his Dad’s Laptop illegally) and rob the cartel’s Trap House. They want to use the money to help Jesse and his Mom so they can move back to El Paso. They band together, researching and staking out a stash house they can raid. They use DEA equipment they get from the DEA Team’s warehouse and set up to raid and steal cash from the cartel’s Trap House.
What seems like an innocent plan to safely steal from the cartel quickly gets out of hand. The Cartel have infiltrated the community to identify the DEA Agents and their families, to take them out. The DEA Kids, The Cartel and The DEA Team all end up in a very real and very dangerous game of Cat & Mouse. The DEA and The Cartel have no idea that it is The DEA Kids doing the damage to the Cartel. That is where things really get dramatic as the tension builds. Who do you trust? Who is who they really say they are? Who is robbing the Cartel?
It honestly felt like a 90’s TV cop show in the beginning. Not that that is a bad thing. From the very beginning Dave Bautista and Bobby Cannavale had me hooked as they lead a DEA Team into a Cartel tunnel hidden underneath a gas station. Then when the DEA Kids, led by Jack Champion, get all fired up to take on the Cartel, I couldn’t look away. Like a train wreck you can’t take your eyes off of. You know bad things are going to happen, that is pretty audacious of a group of teenagers to think they can over run the Cartel. It did have me on the edge of my seat at times, biting my nails, “Are they seriously going to do that? They are going to get it!”
I thought it was pretty good, lots of action, tense drama, and good chemistry between Dave and Bobby, and Jack and the rest of “The DEA Kids“. Honestly they named it wrong, it should have been named The DEA Kids! It also perfectly set itself up for a sequel and a Franchise the way it ended. It is just like those 90’s TV show pilots, more episodes to follow. Tune in for the Sequel: The DEA Kids 2!
Trap House (2025) – Review by Bobby @ Streaming Movie Night.
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