A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
- Released: 2021-07-21
- Runtime: 108 minutes
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thrillers
- Stars: Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Alex Wolff, Thomasin McKenzie, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ken Leung, Eliza Scanlen, Aaron Pierre, Embeth Davidtz, Emun Elliott, Alexa Swinton, Gustaf Hammarsten, Kathleen Chalfant, Francesca Eastwood, Nolan River, Luca Faustino Rodriguez, Mikaya Fisher, Kailen Jude, M. Night Shyamalan, Matthew Shear, Daniel Ison, Jeffrey Holsman, Margaux Da Silva, John Twohy, Kylie Begley, Emma Jonnz
- Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Comments
- arriva - 4 June 2024
M. Night Shyamalan should stick to mythology
No spoilers part:
M. Night Shyamalan's best works are movies about mythology, not really grounded in the real world around us.
This movie however tries to remain in our universe while creating a whole different universe which just doesn't make sense because M. Night Shyamalan barely understands physics, biology and medicine.
You know from the trailer that people on the beach were getting old very fast. To be precise they were aging 17520 times faster than the people living in the real world.
The problem is you cannot just "age", you need to speed up all the biological and physical processes just as much and for those people on the beach it would have meant that they'd had needed to eat 18K more (or faster), require 18K more oxygen and they'd have been basically glued to the feeding tube and the waste tube simultaneously.
Even if we imagine this theoretical possibility, that wouldn't allow people to psychologically/intellectually grow just as fast because in real life that means a ton of interactions with the real world, including dealing with/talking to people, reading, analyzing, doing, etc.
Now, spoilers.
OK, that was some isolated region on Earth which some company used as a testing ground for new medical research. The problem is their clients took medicines just once before departing to the beach.
The vast majority of medications don't work that way. You need to take them periodically. Also, considering their test subjects were under extreme stress, the effectiveness of the medicines could turn out to be minimal or missing altogether.
This super company which should in real life have a trillion dollar turnover has a single lab (!) with roughly 10 technicians/biologists and basically no security.
Younger children needed to eat a ton to grow fast but older people didn't. Whelp, it doesn't work this way. Yeah, cells in younger organisms get replaced faster but not substantially faster.
Now, onto the main issues with the production:- The budget was very low and it showed. Actors aged randomly.
- Audio volume was all over the place and it was too loud too often.
- The movie looked cheap for the idea.
- The script should have been better thought out. I guess you still can make the movie work but not how it was ultimately cut.
- Jamppanen - 5 April 2024
Seriously underrated
I never write reviews but I feel like it needs to be done for this one. This was absolutely brilliant and existentially terrifying. I understand that it's not for everyone but still.. seriously underrated!?
I'm still thinking about this movie months later and recovering from the chills. It is a very unique combination of humour, gore, sunny senery, horror, beauty, confusion and profound sadness. There were elements to this that reminded me of the movies Swiss Army Man and I'm Thinking of Ending Things but it was definitely it's own thing.
I can see why some people have found the execution to be lacking and confusing but for me that mood actually perfectly described the feeling of life flashing you by. Would watch this again but it's way too terrifying. - smeglinm - 6 February 2024
Another M. Night Shyamalan FAIL! horrendous! less than 1 star!
I seriously question the standards of anyone giving this flop more than 1 star rating. Every single M. Night Shyamalan movie fails and creating a tight plot. No surprise that another M. Night Shyamalan movie is garbage. More plot holes than a block of swiss cheese. Horrendous acting, miserable writing and cheesy script. Did I mention the embarrassingly horrendous acting from every single character in this "movie"...? How or why M. Night Shyamalan keeps producing movies on the big screen is beyond me- just so many plot holes and poorly written scenes. M. Night Shyamalan seriously needs to hang up the writing / directing of movies, he's not good at it. - xiaoli7377 - 26 December 2022
Uhh the Dialogue and the Acting Are Pretty Bad
"Old" has an interesting premise and a beautiful location. It's shot well and has some decent tense moments. The dialogue is stilted and cheesy though. None of the characters act normal either. Just really weird and a lot of unintentionally funny moments that occur to the really awkward dialogue. Vicky Krieps plays the mother, and maybe it's the actresses nationality and I'm not intending to be offensive saying this, but she just has a really strange sounding accent that throws me off from following her character. This whole movie is just not that good. And an interesting premise like this would be alright if there just weren't so many situations where I was laughing instead of taking it seriously. - holpj - 1 November 2022
Terrible
This movie is absolutely the biggest waste of time. Terrible acting, poor choice of camera angles, and more comedic than psychological thriller. M. Night Shyamalan missed the mark with the cinematography, hardly showing the bodies of characters and shielding the audience from crucial moments in the film. Shyamalan has done some impressive work in the past and this was probably a good screen-write, but the execution was terrible. I can understand the concept but maybe he should let someone else direct the movie. Cheesy cheesy cheesy. Was hoping for more thought provoking moments and spooky themes. Disappointed. - vidaljoaco - 6 October 2022
Low rating reviews are void of argument and filled with rants
I feel the movie would deserve a 9 but I gave it a 10 because of all the ridiculous low "rantings".-
The premise is really intriguing.
The execution and development of the main plot and it's consequences is excellent and profundly emotional.
All of the actors and actresses deliver exceptional perfomances. The evolution of the youngest characters portrayed by several actors is carried out beautifully.
Sfx and Vfx used are enough for the type of plot It wants to carry out. Besides, the location selected is gorgeous and full of natural lighting that must've helped a lot.
Sound effects, Music and Voices. I'm no expert at this specialties in developing a movie but they weren't either amazing or inadequate.
In conclussion Shyamalan, as always, is under underappreciated.
Review written by a 35 year old lawyer from south am.
