Not Night’s best, but far from his worst
You don’t have time to waste on long-winded movie reviews.
You want to cut to the chase and find out what is good and what is bad, right?
Well, Jason Evans is here to give you all you need to know about movies in
exactly 100 words (not 99, not 101). Here is his 100-word review of M. Night
Shyamalan’s Old.
The Premise: A married couple, Guy (Gael García Bernal) and Prisca (Vicky Krieps),
are on vacation at a beach resort with their young son and daughter. The resort
manager tells them about an exclusive private cove they can visit. A few other families
also join them at the cove. After a short time, an elderly woman dies and they
realize all the people on the beach are aging much faster than they should. The
children and adults are soon racing against time to get off the beach before
they all die and turn to dust.
The 100 Words: More mystery/thriller than a horror movie,
Old is wildly inconsistent with tonal shifts that are hard to take (I was often
laughing when I should have been horrified). But, despite a bonkers plot that
defies logic, I could not tear my eyes away from the screen and the 108 minute
run time flew by. Night is more interested in his premise (and occasionally grossing
us out) than he is in the characters, which is a problem because I just did not
care whether any of them survived. Still, it was a fun ride and Night has
certainly done worse.
Comments
Post a Comment