What’s It About
This summer, visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan unveils a chilling, mysterious new thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
Lately, M. Night Shyamalan has sucked, but his current effort is nearly worth the praise he used to get when The Sixth Sense was out. In Old, we see a family of four on their way to a resort to get away from everything and discuss their future as a couple. Once there, the resort manager approaches them with the knowledge of an exclusive getaway on the other side of the island. It’s so exclusive, there were three other couples already there. Nothing is happening at this point in the movie. The characters are one-dimensional, and the dialog is flat. So after they get to the secluded beach, and everyone has introduced themselves, I wanted something to happen, and eventually, it did. Every character became a narrator with unrealistic emotions. They find a dead body, and instead of panic, they analyze it. They magically figured out they were aging rapidly and calculate how fast. These people are not normal, but this is an M. Night Shyamalan film. The concept is intriguing, but the poorly executed way it takes to get to the point is so unnecessarily drawn out, you stop caring after the second incident. Other issues were the aging process. It was very inconsistent, but they had an answer for that since they basically had to tell you how everything worked and why. The longer this film lasted, the more I didn’t care what happened to anybody. So is it worth watching? Yes AND No. Yes, because it’s one of those movies that everybody will be talking about, and you don’t want to be the only one that hasn’t seen it. And No, because it’s still a slow nonsensical film that you can wait to see when it comes out on video or TV for free.
OUR RATING – I SEE A DEAD AUDIENCE 4
MEDIA
- Genre – Thriller
- Street date
- Digital – October 5th, 2021
- DVD/Blu-Ray October 19th, 2021
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 2.39:1
- Sound – English: Dolby Atmos, English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 16-bit), French: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
- Subtitles – English SDH, Spanish, French
Extras
- All The Beach Is A Stage (HD, 10 Mins.) – The cast and crew talk about blocking and shooting on location on a beach near the ocean. Everyone talks while shooting the film with some on-set footage added in. This also reveals all the sets, green screens that were used, along with how the cameras shot some of the more impressive shots of the film.
- Shyamalan Family Business (HD, 8 Mins.) – A cool little featurette with a great song in the background that has M. Night discussing bringing his own daughter to the film as second unit director. She talks about working on the movie with family with some clips of the film and behind-the-scenes footage added in. Additionally, his other daughter talks about making some of the music for the film as well.
- Nightmares In Paradise (HD, 8 Mins.) – The crew discusses how they found the beach that the movie takes place in. Sounds like locations were scoured all over the world until they landed on this location. Bonus points for this one, because a few puppy dogs and sea animals are featured here.
- A Family In The Moment (HD, 7 Mins.) – The last scene with the main family on the beach that was shot at the end of production got everyone emotional. The cast talk about this moment and show why it was such a great experience.
- Deleted Scenes (HD, 9 Mins.) – There are ten scenes in total, none of which give an alternate or look of the overall film.