"Ehhh...what's the difference?"
No one has ever looked more beaten down by life and just over all of it than Johnny Clay at the end of this movie.
The runway scene is the last word on the best laid plans blowing up in your face, but the horseshoe in Nikki Arcane's tire is a Hall of Fame Larry David comeuppance.
One of several adaptations of Donald E. Westlake/"Richard Stark" Parker novels (POINT BLANK with Lee Marvin, THE OUTFIT with Robert Duvall, SLAYGROUND with Peter Coyote, PAYBACK with Mel Gibson), but only one of which (PARKER with Jason Statham), left the character's name as "Parker," THE SPLIT stars Jim Brown as "McClain," an ex-con who plots the heist of the cash room at the Los Angeles Coliseum during a Rams playoff game. He assembles a crew and they pull off the…
There's a good 20-minute pitch-black, dread-filled segment in an anthology film here, but stretched out to 90 minutes, it just loses all credibility and effectiveness. Lots of word of mouth surrounding this one over the last couple days about how "shocking" and "bleak" and "stressful" it is, acting like it's the next coming of A SERBIAN FILM or IN A GLASS CAGE or MARTYRS or some other truly transgressive shocker. "Go in blind!" they insisted. "It's the most stressful movie…
