One of M. Night Shyamalan’s greatest mysteries will always concern “The Happening”: Was his 2008 killer trees thriller intentionally so ridiculous and unhinged?
Or namely, was it aware of how funny it was? No such mistake or question will follow Shyamalan’s latest, an odd pitch-black comedy about a beach that ages its uninformed visitors a year for every 30 minutes.
Adapted from the graphic novel “Sandcastle” by Pierre-Oscar Lévy and Frederick Peeters, “Old” is Shyamalan’s kind of summer romp, in which beach bodies decay, and even the most informed people at the end of his puppet strings are completely doomed.
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