Dreadful - and then some

Rating: 4/10 (7 August 2017)

I'm sure James McAvoy has the capacity to be a decent actor and I suppose it's possible that he might one day get a decent part to play in a decent movie with a decent script. But, this one wasn't it.
To illustrate the point, I look back over some of the roles that J Mc has had in fairly recent times - "The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby" (he was terrible and the movie was crap), "Filth" (he was awful and the movie was even worse), "Welcome To The Punch" (he was woefully bad and the movie was worse still) and then this lot of crap, "Split". A schizophrenic with 23 different and distinct persona? I'm no Psychiatrist but really, give us a break!! And then we're supposed to believe that a being of flesh and blood with 23 persona can develop a 24th and then be not only super-humanly strong but also resistant to shotgun fire at point blank range. Seriously, where do they get these dumb-arse ideas from?
2016 produced some wonderfully good movies but this was not one of them. It was dreadful and probably worse is the prospect of a sequel which was set up at the end of this lot of rubbish.
Is it the situation that J Mc just hasn't yet had enough good performances to attract decent scripts? I think that might be the case.
I'll just say for now, you could probably safely stay away from anything that he's in and be none the worse off. Or, to put it another way, stay away from any movie that J Mc is in and you won't miss a thing.
JMV