I have one wish. I wish I’d never wasted my $12 on this movie, and I recommend nobody else waste theirs either.

The movie Split wasn’t anything like I’d expected it to be, at least based on the trailer. The basic plot outlined in the trailer is that a creepy guy, Kevin Crumb (played by a weirdly bald James McAvoy), who supposedly has 23 distinct personalities (although you see only four of them in the actual movie), spends his days kidnapping three teenage girls and hiding them in an underground bunker.

Throughout the movie, Kevin keeps rambling on to the increasingly terrified girls about somebody he calls “The Beast” who is supposedly coming for the girls. The girls come to believe– as does Kevin’s psychiatrist, who he manages to slip out to from time to time– that this “beast” is a fantasy in Kevin’s head. But when the psychiatrist actually meets “The Beast” herself, circumstances take a turn for the worst.

I truly disliked this movie.  It wasn’t exciting or really scary, which is what one might expect from watching the trailer for a PG-13 thriller. I could almost predict everything that was going to happen throughout the whole movie, which was too bad because I thought that this movie had a lot of potential.

Overall, I thought the acting was terrible except for McAvoy, who plays Kevin like he was predestined to. I was expecting this movie to have thrilling, edge-of-your-seat action, and unpredictable moments, which this movie had none of.

The movie was unrealistic, and that was disappointing to me. No human being could ever turn into a “beast” and have animal like characteristics. Come to think of it, I honestly didn’t like anything about this movie, and I think I would’ve rather saved myself 12 bucks, stayed at home and watched a Redbox movie.  

This movie was such a complete waste of my time that I felt like I was in the movie theatre for far longer than just an hour and 57 minutes (time which I’ll regrettably never get back). In fact, I stopped watching the movie halfway through, took out my phone and started texting my friends.

Just because I suffered through it doesn’t mean you have to, so take my advice: If given the opportunity to watch this movie, don’t– just split.