Review of Split (2017) by Tonya_J — 28 Jan 2017
M. Night has created a new villain for our age and done a fine job setting up a very thought-provoking premise: What if being broken makes you pure of heart? And what if once being broken you gained immense strength as a result? James McAvoy steals the entire film with a finely nuanced performance as a "special needs" patient in therapy, who we first meet as Barry.
Betty Buckley provides marvelous support as his therapist, Dr. Fletcher, and whose patients have become her life and her world, leading her to lose her objectivity to a degree. Within the plot, Shyamalan plays with a Jekyll and Hyde theme with a big twist: "You can be who you think you are" sans the experimental potion used in the original Jekyll & Hyde story.
Several horror tropes are at work in Split, but I found it to be more of a psychological thriller, one with an extremely satisfying ending.
This review of Split (2017) was written by Tonya_J on 28 Jan 2017.
Split has generally received positive reviews.
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