Best ending for M. Night? No...but pretty close!

Rating: 10/10 (24 January 2017)

Listen, let's just face it...M. Night will always be the director that everyone remembers for his "Twist Ending". It's cool...I don't bother knowing that he really only has an affinity to wrapping this up his way...no matter the path it takes to get there.
(MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW...WARNING!!)
Last chance...
...really? Have you seen it yet? If not...just see it, don't let this ruin the perfect ending for you.
OK...you made it. Was this ending better than the Sixth Sense? No. Does it matter more? Absolutely.
The movie itself is long. Don't get me wrong. For the type of story he was trying to tell, there could have been a little less going on.
M. Night starts meandering down this road that I questioned at first. The flashbacks to hunting trips with a Dad and Uncle, which leads to sexual abuse was a complete red-herring. One of the greatest red-herrings in history. Why? Because at one point I thought, "Jesus...not this again. He's going for that twist..."
At first, I really thought the 24th personality was going to be Casey all along, and she had made up the whole thing in her head, like that really crappy movie with John Cusack "Identity". As the movie slowly began to wind down, I truly thought I was going to hate the direction the ending was going. Then, HOLY S***, it did a complete 180 degree turn, and threw me off completely.
The whole movie was just the perfect set-up for the most perfect tie-in in movie history in my opinion. One beloved favorite movie of mine, brought back with only 2 minutes of film.
Philadelphia = The New Gotham. You do the math...
If you made it through this review, that means you saw the movie. Go see it again, and you'll know why this Origin story matters!