A good psychological thriller

Rating: 9/10 (26 March 2017)

I cannot believe people giving this movie one or two stars out of ten. The box office and ratings speak for themselves. This was superbly acted by James Mcavoy, I was amazed at how he could almost seemingly be different people during the movie. We only saw a few main characters of his disorder. People complained about mental health, well every horror and thriller has someone involved with mental health issues. People complained about the girls not escaping easily, as far as I was concerned the clichés of the kidnap genre were not blaring obvious at all. I was very sceptical when I saw the running length almost 2 hours, and yet I found the pacing and plot to be involved enough. The finale was terrifying and mind blowing and realistic, and I was on the edge of my seat rooting for everyone involved. People have panned the director, but I think this movie was up there with 6th Sense. The kidnap scenario has been done to death in horror movies, but this movie managed to be so much more. In short, I was almost disappointed the movie ended, and would have liked to see another half hour of the beast in charge along with Dennis and Patricia. There was no sex, no gore, no real violence, and I agree this wasn't really a horror movie. It was a trip into a severely disturbed mind and a happy ending (sort of) for some of the characters.