But unlike some of his previous pictures, which hinge on a late-in-the-day twist that makes you reassess everything you've just seen, it's surprisingly upfront about its premise.īased on Sandcastle, the 2010 graphic novel by Frederik Peeters and Pierre Oscar Lévy, the movies follows two families, a middle-aged couple and a young man, who find themselves trapped on a secluded beach that's causing them to age so rapidly, it threatens to reduce their whole lives to a single day. Still, bad movie, you can do so much better than this.M Night Shyamalan's latest thriller Old is bonkers. I saw it on Netflix, so it doesn't sting as bad as it might have if I had to pay for it. They take a decent concept and make a convoluted mess out of it. So what does that tell you? I can't really recommend this movie, it's poorly written, poorly edited, poorly acted.

Nobody in the film is really good, but Bennett is easily the worst of them all and he's the fucking lead. He has next to no expression on his face. Johnathan Bennett, who plays the lead, is really quite a bad actor. With that said, the acting isn't really good. I wish they would've done this in a smarter fashion, but it was not to be. But I can also understand the side of people who put in years, even decades, of work into a company, making their boss a billionaire, being thrown out like yesterday's garbage without any respect given to their contributions. I can see the fact that businessmen struggle to keep their business afloat and they have to make decisions that ends up affecting many families. And I'm not saying that they shouldn't have been treated as villains, but it's a very sensitive subject and something that's very real and for the film to try to portray it as black and white as it does is irresponsible. The problem with the story is the fact that the people pulling off this kidnapping are treated as out and out villains. But if, at the very least, the film offered a compelling storyline or good acting, then it would've been fairly more enjoyable to watch. But it is what it is, not all films are gonna be skillfully made and that's a fact of life. And it's not like the rest of the flashbacks in the lead-up to the group finding themselves underwater are any better, they jump all over the place when it comes to chronology and it's not done in that clever Tarantino way, where he plays with your expectations and turns them around on you, it's done in an unskilled manner. They don't establish anything that bleeds into the next flashback with the bodyguard's brother. There's seriously no rhyme or reason for these flashbacks. In the next flashback, he's getting into fights with bullies, with literally no mention of him having problems with bullies prior to this, then in the next flashback he's a drug dealer and in the last flashback he kills himself. Not that they were terrible, I mean they weren't good, I'm just saying the fact that in one flashback, the bodyguard's brother is happy. The bodyguard in question, really the main character, has this brother and they do flashbacks with him spending time with his brother that are literally the worst thing I've ever seen. The film also does a shitty job at establishing a timeline, since there are flashbacks used as lead-up to how they found themselves in this situation, but they are absolutely THE worst part of the film. The film is a fight against time as, somehow, they're stuck in a situation that they're able to get out of before the limo is pushed out to the ocean, they don't do a great job at explaining this, but let's just go with what they said. Essentially, the film sees a group of friends and a bodyguard, hired to protect his boss', the businessman in question, daughter, find themselves stuck underwater in a stretch limo after being driven off-road by people trying to kidnap someone in exchange for ransom. But that part of the concept isn't revealed until much later.

It does play into the whole social structure and how rich businessmen do whatever they with the lives of the people they employ and how that can create some resentment towards the businessmen themselves, even if they aren't as heartless as some people might see them as. This isn't a very good movie in spite of a decent concept.

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