Man, whatever happened to Carrie-Anne Moss? Stills courtesy STX Entertainment.
The Bye Bye Man dramatically overperformed last weekend after a widely mocked marketing campaign, almost doubling its $7.4 million budget. So, was it any good?
No.
Shit no.
I mean, look at this trailer —
Split leans heavily on this type of invasive close-up even outside of its primary basement environment. Image courtesy Universal Pictures.
Split is a sharp, tight movie about a trapped girl and her insane captor, except when it isn’t.
The movie starts with social outcast Casey Cook (Anya Taylor-Joy) forced to ride home with two of her much more well-adjusted classmates, Claire Benoit (Haley Lu Richardson) and Marcia (Jessica Sula). The three are kidnapped by Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), who suffers from dissociative identity disorder and who’s body is inhabited by more than 20 different people. From Crumb’s several identities, the girls learn they must escape his underground lair before being sacrificed to a final, cannibalistic personality known only as “The Beast.” Also, Crumb sees a psychologist, Karen Fletcher (Betty Buckley), and the movie halts all its momentum at several points so we can get her two cents.
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