Movie Corner: “Old”

(2021 Universal Pictures)

★★☆☆☆

By HOWARD McQUITTER

M. Night Shyamalan  is up to another one of his  “prize” thrillers that simply doesn’t add up to a hill of beans. I often say I’ll go for the ride with a movie if it lacks in major areas, but with OldI just wanted to not even get on the ride. Back in 2002, with his film The Sixth Sense(his first actual film is Wide Awake in 1998),the public was in awe of  starring actors Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg, and Glenn Fitzgerald. Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense, indeed a sensation, drew viewers from word of mouth as well as by advertisement. 

     Old is the movie that should have never left the drawing board. At first, about a dozen tourists are told about an isolated “paradise” island which is supposed to be the ideal vacation spot. Strange things begin to happen when the tourists arrive. A woman’s body washes ashore and just minutes later a man named Mid-Sized Sedan (Aaron Pierre) runs over to the tourists pleading he had nothing to do with the woman’s death. Do we believe him or not?… Read the rest “Movie Corner: “Old””