Just Play Dead vs Mantrap
Just Play Dead has the higher audience score (8.2/10 against 5.6/10 for Mantrap). Mantrap is the shorter watch at 1h 13m compared with 1h 37m. Mantrap is the older of the two (1953 against 2026). Both are crime, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Just Play Dead
Mantrap| Just Play Dead | Mantrap | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.2/10 | ★ 5.6/10 |
| Year | 2026 | 1953 |
| Length | 1h 37m | 1h 13m |
| Genres | Crime, Thriller | Crime, Thriller |
| Country | United Kingdom | – |
| Director | Martin Campbell | Terence Fisher |
| Main cast | Eoin Macken, Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Green, María Pedraza, Jason Fernández | Anthony Forwood, Lois Maxwell, Paul Henreid, Kieron Moore, Hugh Sinclair |
Synopsis
Just Play Dead
A criminal mastermind plans to fake his death for insurance money while framing his wife's lover. His wife plots to kill him for real and take it all. Both race to outmanoeuvre each other in a deadly battle of wits.
Mantrap
Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's…
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