Well, I am reading all these reviews how this is a perfect movie, 10/10, best trilogy etc. I fail to see why. I went in completely neutral, as I liked Unbreakable, accepted Split and figured this could be interesting.
The acting, everyone is doing fine, poor dialog isnt an actor's fault. McAvoy is delivering, as he did in Split.
The story itself is acceptable, some nifty twists, as you might expect from M. Night Shyamalan, but the writing is just poor.
We have a serial kidnapper being caught (Bruce bumps into him pretty soon, the odds!) and he gets send to a mental hospital right away. Not one in a prison, no sir, just a regular(?) one, with minimum security. Even 'normal' mental hospitals would have more personell around, let alone one for criminals. Not only is the security minimum, the guards are downright idiots. No protocols are followed ("is he really a serial kidnapper?gee let me get close unarmed") and there's no sign of any police or justice department involved. All the relatives seem perfectly fine with this kind of treatment too, no policereports or so, no lawyers or anything...all good. Half way through I was already done with the writing, superpowers are more convincing than this storyline.
My hat off to McAvoy for saving this movie, he carried it.
We have a serial kidnapper being caught (Bruce bumps into him pretty soon, the odds!) and he gets send to a mental hospital right away. Not one in a prison, no sir, just a regular(?) one, with minimum security. Even 'normal' mental hospitals would have more personell around, let alone one for criminals. Not only is the security minimum, the guards are downright idiots. No protocols are followed ("is he really a serial kidnapper?gee let me get close unarmed") and there's no sign of any police or justice department involved. All the relatives seem perfectly fine with this kind of treatment too, no policereports or so, no lawyers or anything...all good. Half way through I was already done with the writing, superpowers are more convincing than this storyline.
My hat off to McAvoy for saving this movie, he carried it.