Dir. M. Night Shyamalan (2016) Rated PG-13 The very first time I ever saw the preview for Split, I thought it was going to be terrifyingly disturbing and I vowed that I would never watch it. Months later, here I am, writing a review for this movie. I credit this bold move of mine to taking film. I'm broadening my horizons now, are you proud of me!? It doesn't matter. I'm proud. Anyways, I did somewhat enjoy this movie. For me, whenever I watch a horror film, I never pay attention to whether I enjoyed it or not. I'm always focusing on whether or not I am going to make it out without nightmares, and so far, there have been none. The thing that I liked about this movie the most: the acting skills of James McAvoy. The thing I liked the least: the ending. This was the first movie (I think) that I have ever seen starring McAvoy, and he was brilliant. To play a character with DID would undoubtedly be incredibly challenging. I was so fascinated watching him morph into the different personalities, particularly Patricia and Hedwig. The personalities were definitely what brought the horror aspect to the film. I have no complaints on the character(s) of Kevin (McAvoy), and I was really just consumed with watching him the whole time, which is why I largely liked this movie a lot. The part that I thought was weak were the high school girls (Casey et al.), but they were pretty irrelevant to the film. (But there was a character who had my name! That's pretty rare.) I thought that their acting made the film seem more juvenile for some reason. Also, the ending. SPOILERS: At the very end, everything was going fine and dandy until Bruce Willis came out of no where. I guess if you have seen Unbreakable the ending would have made a lot of sense, but for someone who has not, I was totally confused. Split is apparently the sequel to Unbreakable, and in the third movie Willis will fight both The Horde (Kevin/villain in this movie) and the antagonist in Unbreakable. It's not that I hated that ending, but I was not expecting it at all and didn't know that Split was a sequel to anything. I have also never seen Unbreakable, so I didn't understand it. The ending didn't take anything away from the plot, though, which I really liked. Essentially, all the parts that I didn't like about the movie did not outweigh by any means what I liked. It wasn't nearly as scary as I was expecting it to be, but instead it was just fascinating. Ever since I took psychology, I have been interested in dissociative and psychotic disorders, so it was really cool to see a movie that depicts the scarier side of human psychology so well. In conclusion (I never know how to end these), I enjoyed this movie, though I was expecting the opposite, so I am really glad that I watched it.
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