Split [Blu-ray]

Split is one of my favorite movies I've seen all year. Haven't liked much out there, and I generally love films no one else does, "Mother!" being another favorite of mine in 2017. In "Split", it's the performance of actor James McAvoy that made this riveting. I'd be surprised if he doesn't get a nomination. The movie starts right up without wasting any time. Claire and Marcia are two teenage girls gossiping about Casey, a third teenager who is withdrawn and distant from the rest of the teenagers at a birthday party. This makes Casey a social outcast and the talk of her peers in gossip circles. Casey's ride home never shows up due to her alleged rides car breaking down, so Claire's father insists on driving her and the girls home himself. All of the teens get in the car and wait as the father puts the groceries in the trunk. There is an altercation the girls don't see off screen and soon Casey who is in the front seat of the car discovers a strange man in the driver seat. When Claire and Marcia discover it too they move into a panic, but the man maces them. The man is Kevin, a guy who abducts the teens and locks them in a cell in some kind of underground house. Casey, the withdrawn social outcast character, ends up being the strong together one that gradually forms a bond with Kevin when she realizes that he has a dissociative identity disorder where he morphs in and out of 23 distinct multiple personalities. One of them being the ruler, "Dennis", the personality that originally abducted the teens, while another self personality being a nine year old boy she uses to get close to in order to help her escape. None of that gives anything away, but merely sets up the film in what is a riveting journey showcasing the varying personalities that Kevin becomes, all brilliantly played by James McAvoy. Anya Taylor-Joy plays the outcast Casey that Kevin soon senses a kinship with because Casey was also equally abused by her caregivers as Kevin. Although the abuse Kevin endured caused him to splinter into different personalities, some of them innocent, and others more dangerous. Generally, I find that most teen actors are too stiff to be believable in anything, but that's not the case with the three actresses that play Casey, Claire, and Marcia. Anya Taylor-Joy receives the majority of scenes and attention than the other two shallow girls. Yet, all three rise to the challenge and make this eerily believable. Much of that likely having to do with the fact that James McAvoy is so fantastic and in the zone that as actresses they have no choice, but to do their best to match him. His presence alone in the various personalities forces them to up their game, which they prove they're more than capable of in this. This was a fascinating dark film that takes so many abrupt twists and turns that you could never guess what's going to end up happening. M. Night Shyamalan wrote and directed this. In the past, M. Night has received quite a bit of backlash of being a hack when he was unable to create another film like the one that propelled him to fame, "The Sixth Sense." I disagree as I've always enjoyed some of his other works after that such as, "Signs", "The Village", "Unbreakable", and yes I sort of even liked, "The Happening." Although didn't care much for the other films he's done as I couldn't get into it. "Split" is one of M. Knights best works to date. I even like it more than, "The Sixth Sense", which was good. In fact, when I first watched this I didn't realize it was his film as I didn't notice his name until the end credits, then I kind of sat back and went, "Wow. He did this?" Of course, it certainly helped by nailing the casting with James McAvoy as the lead. I was never really a fan or not a fan of his, as I simply didn't care either way, until I saw this. He was phenomenal and blew me away with his performance of someone having a dissociative disorder to the extreme. Definitely one of my favorite films this year, as well as M. Knight, and James too.

Sequel to Unbreakable is part of a three film thriller by M Knight Shamalon. Glass is the 3rd in the group. Split is a great film on it's own. I guarantee you will enjoy it. Then you can watch Unbreakable & Glass if you want to see the rest of the story.

Good movie

Nice

The product itself is awesome and high quality. I'm so happy with it and plan to buy next movie. However, the parcel wasn't. The sender should had been wrapped my Bluray in some kind of cushioned or anti-impact-bubbled package instead of just normal plastic wrapped. Because of that, the outer case of my Bluray(the outer case was hard paper , not hard plastic, that had the same information as imprinted in the inner hard plastic case) arrived at my home in edge-crushed condition and I had to throw it away. Good luck that the inner case (the classic black colored hard plastic case of Bluray 4K) was intact. I hope you would take care of this matter.

James McAvoy is such a talented actor.

Love this movie highly recommended to anybody that wants to watch mysterious drama movie

Best one of the 3

Took a while to recieve but awsome movie

Esta película fue un regalo de cumpleaños para mi sobrino. Le dio mucho gusto recibir esta película. La película estuvo genial.

Excelente produto, alta qualidade.

Disfrute por segunda vez esta pelicula ya que me encantan las de su director Night Shyamalan, espero con ansias la de Glass en el 2019