Review of Split (2017) by Suspendbelief — 23 Jan 2017
James McAvoy and Betty Buckley gave fine performances. The plot isn't worthy of them. In addition to a script that heavily relies on the convenient and popular fears of Disassociative Identity Disorder, it disregards any type of sensible behavior.
While teenage girls might be stupid enough not to immediately open their car doors when a stranger gets into their car and their dad vanishes, the absolutely astonishing "haha dude good joke" when one of the girls gets her hands on a walkie-talkie - I could no longer suspend my disbelief and began judging the script much more harshly than I wanted to.
When the doctor goes to see her patient, at night, without anyone else - and then is killed! But when the same girl DOESN'T shoot him in the head, I was done. Kevin Wendell Crumb's weakness is a shout out to Rumpelstiltskin - and maybe the girl is a survivor-damaged-Beast like he, but then to link it to Mr.
Glass and Unbreakable?! How many things do you want one movie to be? A commentary on child sexual abuse buried within a horror film with callbacks to fairy tales that's also a commentary on social norms and mental disorders - and a sequel to a comic book hero/villain.
Holy f*ck - choose one story telling device.
This review of Split (2017) was written by Suspendbelief on 23 Jan 2017.
Split has generally received positive reviews.
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