M. Night Shyamalan has made some very good films and some very bad films. However, his first collaboration with James McAvoy, Split, is one of his best and you can stream it now. Particularly McAvoy’s acting performance, representing a total of 23 personalities of the same character, is impressive and makes the film absolutely worth seeing. Split also surprised its audience with a Bruce Willis surprise when it opened in cinemas. From now on it is streaming at a flat rate on Amazon Prime Video.
Superhero film and psychological thriller at the same time: That’s what Split on Amazon is all about
That’s what it’s about:
After a birthday party, teenager Casey (Anya Taylor-Joy) and two friends are kidnapped from her father’s car. The kidnapper Kevin (James McAvoy) has one Dissociative Identity Disorder. It houses a total of 23 different personalities. But everyone else is afraid of one personality: they name it “the beast”.
The kidnapped teenage girls meet different sides of Kevin and learn that they are to be sacrificed to the beast. But Casey doesn’t want to wait idly for her death.
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Anya Taylor-Joy vs. James McAvoy in Split
That doesn’t exactly sound like a superhero movie. Without giving any spoilers, we can reveal that the film ends with an unexpected connection to the superhero classic Unbreakable – and a cameo from Bruce Willis.
Split continues Unbreakable and there is even a third part with Bruce Willis in the lead role
When M. Night Shyamalan made Unbreakable in 2000, he already had the idea for a trilogy. However, he initially rejected the idea and Unbreakable was allowed to stand on its own. First He returned to the topic 16 years later and turned Split. The sequel stands completely on its own. The connection to Unbreakable doesn’t come until the very end of the film. There we see Bruce Willis watching a news broadcast about the events in Split.
Glass was released three years later the finale of the trilogy and thus also brought together the characters of Bruce Willis and James McAvoy. Glass also stars Samuel L. Jackson, reprising his role as Elijah Price from Unbreakable. He already explained to David Dunn (Bruce Willis) in Unbreakable that he is the villain in the story. David Dunn is the hero.
M. Night Shyamalan has ruled out another sequel to the series and the trilogy that the director called Eastrail 177 Universe titled, is completed. The name of the film universe comes from the train wreck at the beginning of Unbreakable. The father of Kevin, the protagonist from Split, is said to have been on this train.
The superhero psychological thriller starring James McAvoy can now be seen on Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. You can see the predecessors Unbreakable and Split on Disney+.
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