Difficult challenge for an actor and McAvoy more than delivers

Rating: 10/10 (11 November 2017)

There are several things that make, for me, a terrific film: an excellent script and excellent acting. This film has both. The challenge faced by James McAvoy is to present 5 or 6 main personalities in the course of one scene and this is amazing to watch. There is one scene where one of these personalities is talking with the psychiatrist and this scene is so well written it actually gives me goosebumps. The shrink suspects that the person she is talking to is not the person he says he is. Their conversation goes on for a while until she convinces him to identify himself. This is an amazing scene for McAvoy and Betty Buckley, the shrink.
Well, let me say the entire movie is full of these types of scenes. Excellent script, excellent delivery by all the actors. Amazing film all around. I can't wait for the sequel.
Finally, I truly believe this film is actually BETTER than Silence of the Lambs. It is as frightening and suspenseful as SOTL, but not as gruesome , which I felt was far too emphasized in SOTL. The character in Split allowed us to feel some compassion after all, because of what he had been through as a child, but we will see what he will become in the sequel. And it won't be pretty.