An average movie

Since this movie had been really poorly received, I wasn’t expecting much, but the idea of a movie mixing ‘Unbreakable’ and ‘Split’ sounded really intrigued so I still wanted to check it out. Furthermore, I wondered how Shyamalan had managed to ruin so quickly his fresh new comeback. Well, to be honest, after watching the flick, I have to admit that I was actually positively surprised by the damned thing and I wonder why the reviews were so harsh. I mean, sure, it wasn’t a masterpiece whatsoever but I thought it was still a decent sequel in this franchise. Indeed, I really loved the idea of a movie reuniting Kevin Dunn with Elijah Price and Kevin Wendell Crumb and the set-up, to have them imprisoned all together fairly early on in a psychiatric hospital/jail was really neat as well. However, the fact that the security was just so low-key in his facility was just ridiculous and hardly convincing. I mean, one of these men was super strong and the other one was super dangerous so they might require something more then a few guards and some cameras. Concerning the characters, it was rather odd that, even though there were only 3 of them and the running time was over 2 hours, Shyamalan didn’t really manage to develop any of them. I mean, Bruce Willis was basically sleepwalking through his whole performance but I guess you shouldn’t expect more from him nowadays. On the other hand, Samuel L. Jackson was simply catatonic for one hour. James McAvoy was once again quite brilliant juggling no less than 20 characters but, for some reasons, this time around, they decided to make him switch characters every 10 seconds and, as a result, he became some kind of exhausting circus act. Finally, as usual with this director, there were a couple of twists at the end but, since it is his most infamous trademark, they were hardly surprising but, above all, they were rather pretentious and, eventually, hardly as fascinating as Shyamalan would like us to think. Anyway, to conclude, even though I would agree that this movie was flawed, I still believe that the concept was really neat and it turned to be a decent watch after all so I think it is worth a look.

6/10