Old (2021) Movie Review

Hello guys and welcome back for another round of movie reviews with Movie Nerd, a place where you can be nerdy about movies!

So guys, like I said yesterday, on this weekend I will do a couple reviews, one of them I did yesterday and today I want to do 2 more, one now and one later in the day but, for the last one, I hope I will find the time to do it but for now I will focus on this one.

When I heard about this movie and seen the first trailer for it and read the synopsis I was very intrigued by the story and the subject. Plus, I really like some of M. Night's movies, the older ones rather than the newer ones but I was very hopeful that this will be good. My thoughts? Stay tuned but for now, a little synopsis for you guys:

• The plot follows a group of people who find themselves aging rapidly on a secluded beach.

Let me start this review by saying that I really appreciated M. Night's resurgence with The Visit, Split and Glass and I know that many people didn't like Glass all that much but I really enjoy it, most of it at least. I thought the ending was not done correctly but I am not here to talk about that movie. I am also a fan of Shyamalan's older movies like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs plus the first part of The Village.

With this one, for me, it was a bit of a disappointment, it really brought down that resurgence a bit because whilst the movie and the story has some great ideas plus I really appreciate the main concept of the story, but the execution was not that great. The story has some great potential but I felt that it was not used to it's fullest but only a small part of it.

First of all, the movie, visually, looks beautiful and it does have some good camera shots but not all the time. Most of the time, the camera angles feel very uneven and the focus is, mostly, unused properly, resulting into some weird and confusing visual choices. Maybe that was deliberate because we are talking about M. Night here and perhaps he choose to do that just to confuse the audience and make the mystery stranger but, for me, it did not felt like that.

Second of all, I talked about the main idea of this movie which is great plus the mystery involving that beach feels very like the TV Show Lost but with a bit more satisfying results. The mystery is very intriguing and interesting but that intrigue goes a bit lost when you got some really bad dialogue and some very unusual jump cuts, going from one character to another and jumping from another back story to another, resulting into a bit of a confusing mess.

With M. Night, you are expecting some twists in his movies and there are no shortage of twists in this one as well but they feel so predictable, by the time you get to the twist, you already know what that twist is going to be. Plus, the main twist at the end is not something to be amazed about, it's just ok, it was just a fine twist with nothing special to it.

Overall, for me, it was a step down from the movies that came before it but it's definitely not the worst. It's got some good ideas, like I felt that the main one was that this was like a metaphor for the fact that life is very fleeting and we have to make the most of it before time runs out. Plus, deciding to set the main action on a beech with the sand, it may reflect how the sand from an hourglass is falling really fast as an image how time flies by really fast. But the execution was not on par with it's ideas and main concept. However, hate this movie or love it and some of Shyamalan's choice may annoy or delight some of you but there is no denying, nobody else could have made this movie. 6.2/10

OK guys, that was my review for this one. I am hoping that I can do the review for Escape Room: Tournament of Champions later today but I am not sure. If not today, sometime next week maybe because next weekend the new James Bond movie is finally releasing so you know I am going to go and see it and then review it.

Until then guys, take care, stay movie nerdy and keep on reviewing!