Split Review

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2017)

Split is one of those movies where I am kicking myself for not watching earlier. Completely a good movie. But there is a reason I am giving it an 8 out of 10. I will get to that.
Synopsis: When three girls are kidnapped by a man with 23 different personalities, they have to work out which of those personalities will help them escape and which of those personalities will try to stop them. Starring: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy Director: M. Night Shyamalan
So, I am sticking with everyone else on this matter, M. Night has come back to his roots, a la Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. It seemed he really took his time with this one instead of rushing it. It seemed he did that a lot with the other movies outside of this one and the two I mentioned.
For James McAvoy he was phenomenal in this role. Was he the right choice for the role? We may never know how Joaquin Phoenix would have done in the first place. But McAvoy did an outstanding job in this show. That's not saying the other actors didn't do bad. I just kind of wish Anya Taylor-Joy's character wasn't so self-contained in the movie. And she isn't the reason I gave it an eight.
Onto that problem. Most of you know there is a twist to the end of the movie. How can a Shyamalan movie not have one? Well, much like The Sixth Sense was ruined for me by someone blurting the ending, so was this movie. Don't worry, I'm not going to ruin this movie for you. Chances are you already know the twist.
With the internet, the end of this movie was ruined for me a couple of days after the movie came out. I am firm believer a twist should never be ruined. Every time I see something Walking Dead related I scroll past as fast as I can. By no fault of the movie, because I was anticipating too much, I had to lower my rating. I hated doing that.
Final Thoughts: Watch, watch, watch this movie. If you do anything else this weekend it should be to watch this movie. It is such a good movie. And don't worry about the twist at the end, it only last a second. Enjoy.
Rating: 8 out of 10
That's it for me folks.