Ladies and gents M. Night is back

Rating: 8/10 (5 February 2017)

I was looking forward to this movie for a while now but when I went to see it last week I had very low expectations because M. Night has screwed stuff up before. The premise for the movie seemed solid and clever enough to hold up a feature film, a man with 23 very distinct personalities at war with each other. In the movie the personalities have as much in common as 23 people have in the same hotel, nothing. They have different beliefs, characteristics, likes, dislikes, etc. this makes for a challenging acting performance for McAvoy but despite the difficulties of this part he does it extremely well and I was most impressed with how he did it. The film was definitely dark no doubt about that and the director chose the most disgusting and despicable of all backstories for our main character Casey, she had and at the end we find out still has a sexually abusive uncle who evidently molested her not only as her age now but as a child. This sets an even more dark and cringe worthy tone to the movie but that wasn't a bad thing at all it gave the movie the depth it deserved. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie especially the acting, I'd say the only thing that I think could have been done better was the tie in to "Unbreakable" (2000), Bruce's cameo was a little too cheesy for my taste. Otherwise yes M. Night fans can celebrate cause he is back!