Review of Old (2021) by Theredsky — 30 Jul 2021
A fun and enjoyable film but isn’t very good. This feels like a M. Night Shyamalan movie in both a good and bad way. Conceptually, the idea is really interesting. There are a ton of cool ideas that are being tossed around here and some of them feel cool and others feel half baked.
The cinematography is really great at points but the editing and some shots can be nauseating. The performances all ALL over the place. The mother is awful while Thomasin McKenzie is weird but the schizophrenic Doctor is great.
It’s just weird that there is almost no consistency within the performances and writing. The moral implication of some of these ideas are really weird. If a child ages rapidly, do they have the concept of consent.
I say this because one of the children that ages gets pregnant from one of the other kids. It’s really really weird at points like that. M. Night is known to have some cool twists, either really great or so bad that it’s funny, but this was fine.
It wasn’t earth shattering but it was an interesting idea. Some of the dialogue is laughable bad at points and the film doesn’t always make sense. There is one person on the beach who has been there for a while but he doesn’t age like the other characters and it’s never explained.
There is also an issue with how stabbing works in this film but that dives too much into spoilers about the film. This is definitely an entertaining experience and I would recommend watching this if you want a good laugh.
This review of Old (2021) was written by Theredsky on 30 Jul 2021.
Old has generally received mixed reviews.
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