How to destroy an excellent movie in under 10 minutes.

Rating: 5/10 (25 April 2017)

Three girls are abducted by a man with an extreme mental disorder. He holds them captive, waiting for the arrival of a mysterious character.
James Mcavoy is superb, as are the female leads. The direction and camera work are excellent. Everything about the situation is creepy and unsettling, especially the way the girls are overly sexualised. Confined in a small space with a clearly demented and dangerous man they try to bargain and trick their way out, taking advantage of their captives split personalities.
A great watch! Then came the huge splashing turd that is the ending.
I don't want to spoil it for anyone but two very bad things happen.
We are halfheartedly tube fed a particularly rubbish premise that I would find hard to swallow under any circumstance. Stupid as it is I could live with that.
What really engaged my vomit reflex was how in the last few minutes characters from another film were crow bared in with all the finesse of a hippo peeling an orange. It is the equivalent of Optimums Prime driving up at the end of "Forest Gump" to ask if he fancied a lift after all that running.
Franchise Mr Shyamalan? Are you spelling that with six or seven $'s
I have never seen such a short sequence completely negate all the good will I had for the previous two hours viewing. An excellent movie totally spoiled by a clumsy and toxic ending.