Had potential but......

Rating: 6/10 (27 February 2017)

This movie had a lot of potential but I feel it was wasted.
*Spoilers*
Whilst the girls are in captivity, you do feel involved with them and you feel genuine feelings of hope/let down when they are about to escape/get captured.
Though you can't help actually getting annoyed with the female main character. She does certain things to make you think she's a smart survivor (for example telling one of the other girls to pee herself to avoid being sexually assaulted), but then other things she does makes you want to scream in her ear.
Firstly she seems to encourage the other girls to try to escape, but doesn't do anything to help. She sits there the majority of the time with a stunned mullet expression on her face. Examples: -When a total strangers sits in their car and begins to put a face mask on and spray her friends with a knock-out gas, she just sits there instead of opening her door running and screaming (she subtly tries to open the door but then stops when the car's warning chime comes on), then patiently waits for man to put his mask back on and spray her. -When one of the other girl's hits their abductor over the head with a chair, she just sits on her own chair without getting up and also beating him.
There are other major peeve moments in the film. For example, she sees a name written on a random piece of paper, but she somehow knows that this is the abductor's real name and he will become "sane" again when this name is called out loud. She had no way of knowing this.
Another example, is right at the end when a woman in a diner is watching the news story, and says something like "That's like that other guy 15 years ago" *cue the Bruce Willis cameo mentioning that the man's name was Mr Glass. This case is nothing like the Mr Glass case. This is the abduction of girls by someone with split personalities, whereas Mr Glass was basically a terrorist.
The ending is lack luster too, the main lead seems like she's ready to go back living with her abusive uncle. There's some BS Midnight Shyamalan 'twist' where they turn out to have been kept under a zoo.
The portrayal of the bad guy was done well, and well acted. However, it is very hard to feel scared by him. I constantly felt that if all 3 girls ganged up on him, they could have easily beaten him up (especially when in his female or child personality).