A bit overrated in my eyes

Rating: 6/10 (5 February 2017)

"Split" is definitely one of the movies that people were talking about lately. It provides a story that's designated to make the audience curious. Three teenage girls, kidnapped by a man with plenty of personalities that is struggling with himself, thereby setting the girls at deadly risk.
The general concept is really promising. And to not get me wrong, this is by far not a bad movie. Some of the acting was brilliantly done and it would be a lie to say that you aren't excited how things will go on.
But there are things that prevent me from rating it better. Firstly, at time sit just tried to be a bit too much of a comedy for my taste. There were scenes that made people burst out in laughter and that kind of ruined the atmosphere of danger and risk. Of course these could be unintentional but in this case they are just not thoughtfully overthought. But most important, why did there have to be kind of a paranormal plot twist? This could have been a beautiful realistic thriller but at the point where knives just break and bullets can't kill anymore the movie just lost me. That's just ridiculous and ruins an otherwise well-made thriller. Maybe that's too harshly said but it really disappointed me. I also fear there will be a second part and I don't see how the film could benefit from that.
So all in all it is a good movie, no questions asked, I don't regret watching it and if you are not too keen on realism I don't see why it shouldn't please you as a thriller fan. I will just stick to other titles.