Some aspects of this are really fantastic, ie. James McAvoys performance and how he seamlessly switched between personas. The scenes where Casey is trying to convince one of the personas to let them go was some of my favourites, same with Dennis pretending to be Barry in the sessions.
The camera-work was exceptional too, in the hallways and following the beast run and crawl, haunting stuff.
I'm torn on the concept of "what if people with DiD actually had a superpower" but I understand what Shyamalan was going for, especially in the context of this being in the *Unbreakable *universe.
The ending felt pretty strange, like it was cut short. Feels like he didn't know how end this film, and for me it wasn't that satisfying. M. Night definitely wanted to focus on the traumatic aspect of it all, and in some ways it worked, others I think it felt kind of icky, for example Casey's trauma with her uncle. I liked how it worked narratively, and the flashback scenes were really good, but the way that trauma kind of helped her in this situation left a weird taste in my mouth.
I can't stress enough how good James McAvoy is in this though, generational performance.
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