Split

A psychological thriller directed and written by M. Night Shyamalan and starring James McAvoy as a man with over 20 different personalities due to dissociative identity disorder. The film is all about McAvoy's character kidnapping three teen girls and holding them captive for one of his personalities, as the three girls try to figure out a way to escape by taking advantage of some of the personalities. Split is a very original film that starts out as a pretty normal thriller that then turns more supernatural by the end when the last personality is revealed, which could have gone too far by what the beginning was like, but the very last shot of the film makes what happened more plausible and fitting with a previous film that Shyamalan had made before. It has a slow pace, at times too many closeups, and some of the dialogue can come off weird at times if it wasn't explained better through one of the girls' flashback and McAvoy's backstory. The performances by McAvoy and the actresses who play the teen girls Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley, and Haley Lu Richardson are all perfect, believable, and frightening and the scenes involving McAvoy's psychiatrist talking about his condition help foreshadow what happens at the end without being too obvious. Over all: 81%
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1. Split