Split Film Review

Finished watching Split, directed by M. Night Shyamalan and staring Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula, Anya Taylor-Joy, Neal Huff, James McAvoy and Betty Buckley. The film opens up with teenage girls Claire (Haley Lu Richardson), Marcia (Jessica Sula) and Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy) are leaving to go home form Claire's birthday party as her farther (Neal Huff) offers to take Marcia and Casey home when the group are kidnapped by a strange man (James McAvoy) who has multiple personalities, takes the three girls and locks them up in a cellar, for his new personality when it finally comes into being. Overall this was a decent film as the film has an incredibly interesting premise which makes the film very unpredictable, however it does leave a lot to be desired. The secondary story of set around psychologist Karen Fletcher (Betty Buckley) is great as it allows the film to give more context to the workings of James McAvoy character's psyche which makes the character more interesting. While the other story surrounding Casey's past which helps to give the character some great development, however it does feel a little out of place in the film. James McAvoy does a great job in bring his character who has multiple personalities to life as each identity has its own characteristics that help to separate one another which is a credit to the script along with James McAvoy's portrayal which helps to bring some tension to the film with how each personality that control. 6.5/10.