 M. Night Shyamalan's back baby and he's here to prove that old habits die hard as he's shown Audiences time and time again that he doesn't learn anything from past experiences. Let's talk about old Maybe it's because I'm growing older and age So I'm getting a bit of a soft spot for M. Night or Maybe it's because most movies in Hollywood today are creatively bankrupt. Whatever the reason I didn't hate old It is certainly didn't love it. I'm just kind of Kind of in the middle on it. This is gonna be spoiler-free for a while I'll let you know when I'm gonna jump into that territory if you've seen the film and want to hear my Kind of more of a breakdown on it. We'll get there. We'll get there eventually We'll just spend a few minutes for people are on the fence about seeing this movie and for some reason respect my opinions on films Just to let you know what I thought if you've seen the trailers You know this revolves around a central group of characters on an island for the majority of the film and for some reason Crazy stuff is happening. The kids are aging rapidly cuts are healing themselves Instantaneously people are freaking out stuff's going on. It's his pandemonium. It's chaos The whole film focuses on this mystery the entire time So think the TV show lost except for condensed into two hours instead of killing us slowly over the course of six or seven Seasons, there's no question the guys got talent and he's certainly very creative That's that's one of the reasons I appreciate his films even if I think he rarely sticks the landing these days I was amazed at how bad the dialogue still continues to be in his films Like he's never had an actual conversation with the human before there were points in the film where a person would say something And it would be completely off base from the last thing that was said almost like he cut chunks of scenes out of his film But he left some of the responses in place I just couldn't understand some of the reactions and that's just across the board not just the dialogue But how people respond to situations around them. I'll jump more into that in spoilers But I'm just gonna say as a parent if something happened to my child that was completely insane I'd be incredibly concerned. I wouldn't take my eyes off my kids These parents are a little bit more a little bit more chill about it and things that shouldn't shock them as much Make them freak out. So it's just this weird a dichotomy between the two people dichotomy dichotomy Hmm tried to sound smart there and it didn't come off that way It could reshoot that look up the word dichotomy and we'll just keep all this in old is a really beautiful film and it was cool seeing it on the big screen for Sure M night though still has those tricks that he's known for that let you know it's one of his movies for instance, I remember an unbreakable scene it does a teen I believe and There was a shot pretty early on where the camera focuses on a TV set And you just see the silhouette of the characters in the background It sits on this shot for what it feels like an eternity. It was probably 30 seconds or so There's no point of it. It's just for you know for the sake of being artsy I guess there's so much nonsense in his films where it's either a red herring or it's just him Plain with the camera angles. I don't I don't really understand it. I don't think anybody can really determine what's going on M night's had there are shots in this film where there's two characters talking and one's like very out of frame You only see basically the nose and maybe like half the profile of another person and then the central characters out of focus Eating something in the background and it sits on this for 20 seconds there's no point to a shot like that and Most other people that would submit something like that the audience would be thinking Okay, this is like D level footage. This is the footage that should have been on the chopping block But instead M night's like yeah, that's the one I want. That's the shot. I want to go with that's rampant throughout this film I can't remember what they're classifying this film as a thriller Maybe a like a scary horror thriller. I don't know. It's not scary at all There's there's not a single scare in the film. There are a couple of jump scare attempts early on They are comically bad and it does that same lame trope movies have been doing for the last 20 or so years Where you know like the mom turns and a kid's there suddenly and the music just goes And the kids is just like hi It's so lame. It's so lazy and they didn't work the two or three attempts that they were in there There's a little disturbing imagery, but it's stuff. We've seen so many times like body dysmorphia type of stuff It's it's kind of comically done though. So you're not you're not really Like invested in the fear. It's more just Okay, well, that's that's happening overall. I like the idea of this film. I think it's an interesting concept Of course, there's a twist at the end. Does he nail it? Mmm, I mean, it's fine I think it was satisfying enough when the whole film hinges on the final ten minutes being you know a satisfying reveal I think it was fine. It was adequate. It wasn't something, you know, amazing by any means But it didn't leave me sour. Okay, it doesn't end on some artsy bullshit, you know Like cut to black instantly. We don't know what happens. It is explained and that's enough for me for the pervs out there Like myself, there are a couple shots of women's behinds in this. They're attractive women It's it's certainly something worth watching And if that's enough to get to the theaters, well, there you have it You heard it here first couple a couple of ass shots in the film So what we have here again folks is a very inconsistent M night film. It's not glass levels of terrible I hated that movie if you liked it There's no there's nothing I can say that's gonna convince you otherwise This is far better than that But I think it takes a big step down from split which I think is one of his better films So yeah, I guess to summarize it's an M night Shyamalan film He hasn't learned much over the years of what works for his type of storytelling and what doesn't I really wish He would have someone else step into the writing room take his cool ideas and just make them make them better Flesh him out a little bit more because there's tons of holes you can poke in this thing for my final verdict I'm giving old 28 out of 40 the last airbender DVDs Haven't forgotten about that film you son of a bitch one of the worst TV show adaptations to movies I've ever seen in my life. All right that out of the way for those have seen this or just don't have any desire And want to hear me rant for a little bit here is my breakdown for all The film focuses on a few different couples who go to this resort They're either found it online or they were given a brochure to this mystery place. It looks like paradise I mean, it's gorgeous. They arrive they get these mart they get these custom drinks to their profile But whatever that means, I guess they filled out some pretty intense questionnaire and From there they just kind of lounge for the day They have two kids. I believe the ages are six and twelve They befriend a kid on the island who says his dad works there This is this is something that I knew would be important later on I also had a feeling these drinks were a little sus too. I wasn't sure where that was gonna go We also find out kind of loosely that a lot of the residents here seem to have some sort of a condition whether they're Fainting or you know, they they have some sort of a appendage that's bursting or whether they have Something growing inside them that's cancerous. Actually, I don't think anybody had an appendage burst And I just made that one up We're gonna keep going Concierge informs the guests that there's a special section of the island that only certain groups of people get Access to and these guys are privy to that information So they get in a vehicle driven by yours truly M night and he takes them to their destination Kicks their asses out says the beaches down there. I'm not helping you Here's a big basket for you to take full of food. Enjoy your stay and then he bolts as soon as they pass through this rocky area They're stuck on the island. They can't go back or they black out This leads to my first question of many the overall plot to this film brace yourselves Is that these people are basically guinea pigs their test subjects and the island itself the rock that surrounds it is very old It's old tiny rock that's been around for for centuries And because the water levels have have lowered so much this whole area was under water And somehow the effects of the rock in this area are messing with people's cells They're aging them up rapidly So when people try to leave and go back through the cave That that area acts as some sort of a barrier because the pressure is too much on their their minds on their heads and they faint Here's my question These people faint constantly trying to go this way that way get off the island and then they end up back in the sand Well, we find out there's nothing supernatural going on here. It's all scientifically based Which I think is M night's first mistake because science. I don't think science is a strong suit They're being studied and monitored 24 7 Because those cocktails they were given at the beginning actually contain Hopeful cures for their ailments because they age so rapidly We're talking like a full lifetime within 48 hours of being there The scientists are able to quickly know if their concoction works or not and then they can just churn out more bodies You know every day every few days. We've established it's scientifically based. There's nothing supernatural going on So how do these people faint inside of a cave and then wake up on the beach again? The explanation could be that other people find them fainted and go in and get them But then they would pass out at one point all of them go different ways and they all end up back on the beach It doesn't make sense. It's possible. I missed something, but I truly don't think so I think this is just a a massive plot hole in the film another thing is we've established that fingernails and um hair are they don't have like living organisms They don't have cells so the hot blonde keeps her luscious locks while she starts to age rapidly The issue is we see them deteriorate into bone The bone should just stay there's no reason why the bone wouldn't but that also breaks down to ash I I don't believe that there's anything living in bone, right? Why why would the bone go so quickly? Well, the reason is because M night needs it to otherwise the beach would be littered with bone It would be a bone graveyard since the human body responds so quickly to things All sorts of nonsense takes place We we have a woman's tumor growing like to the size of a basketball in the course of a couple minutes A couple seconds actually a woman gets pregnant and delivers a baby in in the course of you know 10 minutes and the baby dies instantly because it needed to eat right away um But here's a question If all this happened so quickly to the body wouldn't all these people die of skin cancer within say, you know an hour They're outside In the elements the sun's baking down on them. They're not putting sunscreen on I would assume that they would just fry in the sun. Maybe maybe i'm overthinking it But I feel like that's something that's a legitimate concern here Everybody on this fucking island dies except for two people the kids who aged I'd say a lot slower than the adults for sure. Uh, I I don't know what was going on there Trent I believe is the boy's name decides to decipher a coded message that that kid I mentioned earlier at the resort gave him. He knows he likes puzzles So he decipheres it and it says something about the coral and how his father doesn't like the coral We see this beautiful white coral out in the uh ocean and that's when the kids realize That might protect us from whatever is going on with these rocks and might block it So they swim in there. It's a whole thing and that's how they get off the island I'm not sure why these scientists didn't figure out a way to get rid of that coral But whatever. I mean, you know, what are the odds, right? The last thing I have to point out is m night's bizarre fetish with job occupations One of the boy's Ticks, I guess is he likes to introduce himself ask people their names and their job occupations Fine, whatever. It was it was kind of funny. I knew it would come into play at some point What's really odd though is everybody seems to do this Uh the woman at one point is like I need you to trust me. So here's what I do for a living Some of it made sense and other times it was just what what is going on? Why are you so obsessed with people saying what they do for a living? I didn't know if it was a commentary about how You know life moves so fast and we need to slow down and appreciate it And we shouldn't be so obsessed with working, you know the nine to five And and making our entire identity about what we do Actually, you know what? I'm pretty sure that's exactly what he was doing and because m night's so ham-fisted in his approach It just comes off as sloppy. Those are my thoughts on the film. I didn't hate it. I didn't love it. It was entertaining It's silly. It's m night shaman. 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