Review: M. Night Shyamalan’s new thriller, 'Old,' follows travelers at a beach resort that exacts a terrible price
For many reasons, none of them good, “Old” is in a class by itself. M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller-slasher-sci-fi-creep-out is peerlessly clumsy, silly and alarmed. It’s also alarming for its ineptitude, but the film’s greatest distinction is how its wide-eyed, trembling vacationers manage to sustain a state of alarm that’s intense and unrelenting. As well they might.
Good movies have been made in which young people suddenly age , old people regain their youth or privileged people can’t seem to leave a place where they’ve gathered .
“Is this happening?” a statuesque blonde in a string bikini asks with acute alarm; she’s the one who’s short on calcium. People talk that way in Mr. Shyamalan’s films—in abrupt questions and off-kilter sentences that are definitely English but never quite colloquial. “There appears to be an event happening,” someone says early in “The Happening,” his 2008 paranoid thriller in which people do dreadful things to themselves because of some unspecified aberration of nature.
Who lives and who dies? You won’t find out here, though there’s no harm in noting that since canines have short lifespans in the best of times, the beach takes the ultimate toll on a dog. The cast includes Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Thomasin McKenzie, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ken Leung, Aaron Pierre, Francesca Eastwood, Kathleen Chalfant, Embeth Davidtz and Eliza Scanlen.
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