Old
Old, based loosely on the graphic novel Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Lévy and Frederik Peeters, sits somewhere between Tales Of The Unexpected, Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone.
M. Night remains most famous for The Sixth Sense. His movies tend leave you with more questions than answers and this movie certainly follows that pattern. The characters that appear here are all deliberately brought together, the film slowly reveals back stories to a small extent, enough for you to understand why they are there but not quite enough to make you care about them all.
It has a very strange tone - the story travels a fine line where you either go with it or just find it bonkers. I can picture audience members getting totally hooked, but with the twists and turns others would walk out. There's no real gray area for it to sit in comfortably. And that's a good thing, a real love/hate ideology. One thing I would say is that at times the dialogue sucked - "Can you believe I found this place online?" in 2021 has to be one of the worst lines in cinematic history. Online you say? What are the chances.
I'm genuinely not sure what I made of this film. I clocked the twist and what was going to happen within it during a very early scene so I guess a lot of the tension was lost. But there was an edge to it and I did sit there intrigued and asking myself at times what the f*ck is going on. So, I'm going to say I enjoyed it. Ultimately it is an oddball of a movie... But then aren't M Night films always?
