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And a man who's gonna know a lot more about this film than I am because he got to see it
and I was somewhere else that night because we had to divide and conquer on this one.
He is Don Ford, but you may know him as Fondango, but it's mom and even Don Ford.
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Welcome sir.
We did for the Empire.
We did for the Empire.
We did for the Empire.
Yes, we did.
Whatever we do one of these, it is to review something and this is no particular exception
to that rule.
Is the return of the emnite Shaman?
We go back to the Shaman on my universe.
The Shaman Lumaverse.
I guess you can call it.
The movie is called Split.
Before we start this whole thing.
Yes sir.
Take Barion and everybody at Slyfox for the invite.
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Huge fans of those guys.
We love Slyfox.
I know you weren't able to make it, but I know we had a divide and conquer that night, but
we are always thankful for the invites we get and that's how we're able to divide and conquer
and we're able to give as many reviews to the Empire as we possibly can.
So you got to see this one.
Yes I did.
Here's what I know.
Okay.
Let's see the trailer.
Yes.
So it looks like three girls go to the mall, we're leaving them all and they get abducted.
Yipperc, and taking somewhere looks like maybe a basement or a bunker of some kind.
Yes.
That kind of thing.
And their captor is a young man by the name of Dennis.
He's not old.
He's that he's seven.
He called me Dennis.
Who has multiple personalities and as the poster, the one sheet for this film tells us.
He's at 23 or 24 distinct personalities, but there's one more coming.
So they have to figure out which one of these personalities can help them escape versus
which ones of these personalities won't.
And these three girls are led by Casey, correct?
Yes.
Played by Ania Taylor Joy.
Yipperc.
Then there's Claire.
I'm just going to say it.
Yeah.
Go for it.
Creepy.
All right.
We know it's the M.I.
Shaman.
It's the Shaman Lamaverse.
Okay.
You know, he's had some good films, but there's been some that been kind of questionable.
Uh-huh.
But this one here, I'm a big fan of one of his films in particular because of my geekiness,
but this is a different story.
There's still some there kind of lightly in the last, you know, you know, few years
or people are kind of questioning.
And if those of you that don't know, Shaman Lamaverse is also heavily involved in this
reboot of tales from the crypt, really.
That's coming back to TNT later this year.
Well, on this direction, I think he's getting back to the good side of what people will
kind of, you know, I watched this film.
And it had that kind of, you know, Shaman Lama on film kind of, feel with it, but not too
big.
Okay.
So he didn't really think it was one of his films.
I'm going to say this in minor spoiler in three, two.
Don't say the one, please.
Wait till the very, very last scene before the credit start because he kind of integrates
something.
Yeah.
I've heard this.
I've actually done my research.
Yes.
Friends of the show, the movie brothers were there last night and I talked to Kevin today.
I kind of knew because I read some spoilers on IMDB, okay.
So I had questions about it and Kevin was able to answer my questions, but that's as far
as we're going to go.
But just know that it's Shaman Lamaun, so there's going to be a twist towards the end.
And safe to say not one that you'd even think about seeing coming.
No, not at all.
Which is kind of me.
But it's still, it didn't really feel like one of those movies like signs or something
like that where unbreakable.
If you could equate it to what kind of a field it had is, or it will be you could equate
it to.
Him himself.
No, just a film itself where you said it doesn't feel like a shaman on film.
Is there another film you could compare it to?
That scene in silence of the lambs were buffalo bill inside the, where she's in that
hole.
I want to say silence of the lambs.
I'm not sure.
Yeah.
That kind of thing.
Okay.
So I had that kind of bill being in the film.
Because most of the not helping the creepy vibe see or certain, not helping the creepy
vibe at all.
I'm still kind of creeped out right now.
But keeping that mind.
There's kind of two stories to this.
Okay.
Yeah.
McAvoy's character plays Dennis and all the other personalities.
When he goes out, he's big thing is he's seen by a professional play by Betty Buckley.
The great Betty Buckley.
Okay.
And all that.
Mm-hmm.
She was also on eight as enough.
Yeah.
How about that?
But Dr. Fletcher is a character.
And she's like one of these leading world psychologists to deal with multiple personalities.
Also not her first shaman on project.
She was also in the happening.
All right.
So his little story is he will come in as a character who's kind of down the earth.
Kind of like the normal person character.
Mm-hmm.
Like him just the normal you think this is a normal guy.
Okay.
And so he'll there's other personalities that will say, hey, I need to talk now.
And then all of a sudden she's like, I got an email from you last night at midnight.
Oh no, it's nothing big.
I just feel a little better.
So there's a story of that.
Mm-hmm.
Then there's the story of in the bunker will call it.
Okay.
Where they'll locked up.
Mm-hmm.
The thing that really gets me going on this.
Uh-huh.
And a good way or a good way.
Okay.
Okay.
You got Taylor Joy to play Casey.
You got Richardson who played Clare and Haley Lou Richardson playing Clare.
In Jessica, Sue Lou who played Marcia.
Marcia.
Marcia.
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia.
In this film, Sue Lou and Richardson play like the, what do you expect to victims
to be?
Oh, don't you know the crying.
They're, they're the horror film queen screen queen.
Exactly.
Okay.
Now, but Taylor's character, Taylor Joy's character, the Clare plays that kind
of person who, you knew something's wrong.
She's like, kind of like the outcast.
You know, it doesn't really have the friends.
Something quite right about that girl.
Yeah, something quite right.
And as the movie goes on, you'll understand why.
Okay.
In true Shama, a lot of fashion.
Exactly.
But she's the one who's starting to figure out, hey,
she's figuring out what's going on.
So she's kind of getting the plan together.
And trying to figure out what's the best way to deal with these different
personalities when it come in and there's going to be those two or three words.
Maybe I might have a shot.
And I want to ask about that.
Yes.
A guy like McAvoy, who I'm a huge fan of.
Yes, I mean, this guy, he's got so many skins on the wall in the last 15 years.
I forgot he wasn't taking, of course.
Until earlier today, this is a dawn
team kind of a role.
Because not only are you shuffling multiple, literally multiple characters,
but you have to be able to transition those characters.
How was that for you?
I didn't think of him as all, because I think of him as from the X-Men.
But what I'm saying is how did he do in transitioning between the different personalities?
Okay.
I want to, I'll get to that one.
There's 24 of them.
Yes.
Because it would be honest with you, maybe just seconds of a couple, but there's
about five or six personalities you really get to know.
Okay.
Fair enough.
Okay.
That you see most through this more of the dominant person.
The dominant person.
Okay.
Fair enough.
With this, he will, I didn't think of him as the guy from X-Men.
Okay.
That's an English guy.
It's like with this head shaved and everything else in the look, I didn't think of him at all.
This is, you know, like a new person, a new, that you've never seen before.
So that was really, in tant, ticing that I really liked that you didn't think of him as
the guy from X-Men.
I put my written review at www.clapasplacas.com.
That's our website.
If this film was released maybe a month ago, they might be talking nominations for best
actor on this.
Well, the only thing that it was nominated for right now is the ALFS.
A award for young British performer of the year for on Yatiller J, not even for Mac
of a way.
Yeah.
So if but it's also got a 2016 year on it.
So it may have gotten some limited release, which may make it eligible.
But I think it's too late.
Okay.
If that's something released this a month ago, they would be talking about this around
award seasons because how he could go from one person to the next to the next to the
next.
And there's scenes where usually when he goes from one character one personality to the
next, he'll leave the room.
Okay.
You know, come back in.
So it's a different time.
He'll leave the, then a little bit later the door opens again and you see another
personality.
Then he leaves.
And he comes in.
He's another personality.
Okay.
But there's only a couple scenes where he would, you will see him change right
in and there from one to another.
How was that for you when it did happen?
Wow.
Okay.
Wow.
And he plays like the, the nine year old kid.
And there's the nine year old kid who, uh, Casey's trying to really, I'll be your
friend.
Maybe he's the one that'll let me get out of here.
Okay.
There.
No.
And they always talk about the 24th thing.
I don't want to see much about that last personality because that's really can give
a lot of way to the piece.
And in talking to Kevin today, yes.
There is a one sheet for this film that I, when Kevin explained to me what was going on
because I don't want to spoil anything.
Yes.
But there is a one sheet for this that actually kind of spoils that a little bit.
And I'll show you, I'll pull it up and get off air.
Yeah.
But when Kevin told me where it was going, I was like, okay.
Yeah, that it is kind of spoiled a little bit in one of the, the main one sheet that's
out there now.
But I don't think it spoils it in a way that would deter people from seeing the film.
And really, I put in my written review that he plays like 10 different characters in one
film.
He really does.
You really, there's the 9-year-old child, there's the guy who just doesn't say a word,
whatever, then there's like the mother figure from psycho and stuff like that.
I'm showing down the one sheet that I'm talking about.
Do you see what I'm saying?
Yes.
If you don't know what you're looking at, it's not really a spoil.
Yeah, because I saw that and I didn't see it didn't spoil anything, but then when I
look after seeing it, yes, you see that.
And you understand why.
But really, I truly honestly thought he was playing like 10 different characters in the
film.
Although there's another one sheet that I'm a huge fan of that I'm going to show you now.
It looks more like a Mando poster, but I think that really explains more without spoiling
anything.
I think that's kind of neat too.
Yes.
There's a one sheet for this, where it's like, it says split, but his, it's him in silhouette
profile and his body is kind of split jaggedly and you can see all the different.
It looks like the personalities are falling into his brain.
Exactly.
That looks pretty cool.
I'm a fan of that.
You really felt like he played like 10 different characters.
Really.
And now, the pacing, honestly, you're watching age, I would probably say with you maybe
about somewhere between the 20 to 30 minutes.
Oh, so good.
So it's pacing.
He's well, but it is two hours.
He could tell it's two hours, it may, maybe he had a feel that maybe, I mean, it's one
fifty seven.
So you might as well just say two hours.
So you kind of feel that maybe by sin by the end of some might be a little long, maybe
five ten minutes going to pick cut out, but you're not really disappointed on that.
It is a PG 13 film.
Did you find this held back by that rating or did it kind of work with what it could
have been on?
Yeah.
And something what they made it are even more, even more creepy or more creepier.
More creepier.
I mean, there's a couple scenes where I could see where, you know, if they enhance these
are added to it or made it more more, where they didn't care about the rating, I could
see it where made a hands to film where if they got an already, it might be a little
bit better.
So you mentioned psycho a minute ago.
Yes.
Did you classify this film in a, as being on par with something Hitchcock would have
done?
Wow.
Because the reason I asked this is Kevin and I talked about that earlier today as well,
where he was like, you know, what this, this had a real Hitchcockian vibe to it.
I can see that.
I've never thought about that.
But yeah, it had that real Hitchcockie thing in there.
Okay.
I can really see this where if he was alive today or, you know, if he kept on going maybe
this, because that's, that's high praise because Alfred Hitchcock is a master of suspense
and thrillers and so there are some scenes where you're, get on the edge of the seat.
And the thing I did like, there are a couple scenes where McAvoy's playing these poor
roles and when he, you laugh, but, but it's so serious, but it's so outrageous, but you
know, it's an uncomfortable laughter.
You could kind of see that because what he does is when these characters, when you realize
that, you know, you heard some people laugh or anything, you know, but then you start to realize
a character and you're like, okay.
So I mean, there was some things where Mc and Mc make you laugh, but that didn't like
two minutes earlier, you're on the edge of your seat.
Fair enough.
There, you know, back by the three quarters of the way Mark, that's when it starts getting
their real edge and your seat kind of thing moments there.
Anything else you want to throw out there before we do the final analysis?
I think the look really enhanced it because when they were outside like when he's going
to the doctor's office and stuff like that, it's kind of cloudy outside most of
time.
It's not a big sunny day.
Shyamalan's a big fan of shooting darkest.
So the rest of the time, you're in that underground thing.
So the lighting was perfect where you kind of had that feel like in that dungeon of silence
of the lamps kind of thing.
So I think the look, the lighting, everything really enhanced the eerieness to this film.
So I give a lot of kudos to that.
All right.
You ready for the final analysis?
Let's do it.
Also on the show, we're not going to give you a thumbs up thumbs down.
We're not going to give you like four knives up or anything like that.
Here's what we're going to do.
I'm going to start up to two questions.
Question number one, what do you see this again?
If the answer is no, then we're done here.
But if the answer is yes, my follow-up question for Donna is going to be how far are you
willing to go to see this again?
And the spectrum goes from best to worst, full price in a theater, twilight, matinee, early
morning, second run at the dollar theater, red box, Netflix, cable.
Don, would you see this film again?
Yes.
How far are you willing to go to do that?
I would do the recommendation of something like either a matinee or twilight.
Also right there on the precipice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I won't get full price because, you know, it seemed to kind of long, but you understand
why, but acting back a boy and then Taylor Joy, they really had to get chemistry together
in the acting.
They fed off each other very well.
So still, I've twilight easily.
All right.
So let me ask you this.
Yes.
Is M Knight Shyamalan back with this film he's on the right track.
Okay.
So you know what I say?
He's fully back, but their potential is there.
Yeah.
He's in the car.
All right.
The car is on the road.
All right.
Yes.
It is split.
Directed by the aforementioned M Knight Shyamalan starring James McAvoy, and before we
end this thing again, we want to think Marianne and everybody at Slyfox.
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