Backstory Spoilers Only...

Rating: 9/10 (29 January 2017)

By now...Everyone knows the twist that pops up at the end of Split so there is no need for me to even talk about it yet again here for this review...
Instead...I wanna talk about the backstory that critics and fans keep saying didn't need to be there...And to be completely honest...It's bugging me quite a bit...
The backstory I'm talking about is that of Casey Cooke played by Anya Taylor-Joy...The story goes into her past for reasons that seem to float right pass the audience...
Question: Why did Casey tell her friend who was about to be dragged into the next room by the kidnapper to "Wet" herself..??
Answer: Because as Casey's backstory reveals...Her Uncle was/is a monster/pedophile and once that is revealed..The audience should have realized that wetting herself was a sad but somewhat useful weapon to use against her Uncle...And sure enough when her friend and fellow captor took Casey's advice...It killed the mood for the kidnapper...
There was only one scene that I wish had been edited differently...And that was the scene when a 5 year old Casey played by Izzie Coffey was pointing the shotgun at her Uncle...The fact that the Uncle was able to get the gun away from her should NOT have been used...
If the scene had played up until the point where the audience thinks she is about to shoot him but then jumps back to present time...That would have given Casey's final scene a much more powerful impact...Particularly when the police officer lets Casey know that her Uncle had arrived...
Only then should the audience have realized that Casey hadn't actually pulled the trigger because the Uncle had managed to get it away from her...
For this reason alone...I give this film 9 out of 10 stars...Other than that...Casey's backstory was extremely vital to the entire movie and I really wish people could understand that and see it as clearly as I do...
And That's All There Is Too It...
P.S...There is a brief appearance by Kevin as a child with his Mother in Unbreakable at the 53:52 minute mark...Check it out everybody...