The Visit 4K 2015 Ultra HD 2160p

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Many years ago, she had fled her parents' home without a trace, and since then she had tried not to remember the events of that very night. Now she has grown up children. One day they receive invitations from their grandparents, whom they have never seen, and decide to pay them a visit.

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Becca and Tyler are traveling to visit their grandparents for a week. The family circumstances are so bizarre that they have never met before. The old people behave very strangely, but the kids are well-mannered, tolerate the inconvenience, and at first write off the oddities as illness and advanced age. Becca records everything on camera and intends to make a documentary. The situation worsens every day.

The appearance of M. Night Shyamalan to the people if and compare to the bursting of the bomb, then only atomic, six megatons, a megaton for each sense. Formally the third, and by Hamburg count the first movie of the 28-year-old Indian, released in 1999 (we are talking, of course, about “The Sixth Sense” with Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment) in the best sense blew the brains of both viewers and critics. And the box office, of course: worldwide collections exceeded the 40-million-dollar budget more than 15 times. For sixteen years now, when talking about movies with unexpected endings, of which many have been made since then, everyone compares them with “The Sixth Sense”. For sixteen years, watching dark, twisted stories, viewers have been hoping for an ending that turns everything they've seen upside down.

But is it possible to continually surprise the viewer with the same gimmick? Shyamalan attempted to clone a bomb in his next movie, Unbreakable, but only partially succeeded. The power of the explosion fell by a factor of five. Since then, the director uses only small arms. Sometimes - quite successfully (“Signs”, “Apparition”), sometimes jams (“The Girl in the Water”, “After Our Era”), and “The Last Airbender” and at all received five anti-premiums “Golden Raspberry”, including for the worst film of the year. Compare that to “The Sixth Sense's” six Oscar nominations. Well, what should a director do, who has traveled this winding road, but from whom they patiently continue to wait for a miracle?

М. Knight Shyamalan turned to the genre of mockumentary, aka “found footage”. On the one hand, this appeal looks like a gesture of despair. Shooting “as it happens” with a shaky camera is not the best way for a venerable director to express himself. On the other hand, pseudo-documentary is probably the most reliable way to scare the viewer. Realism adorns any script, especially a horror script, and a horror script from a master - and even more so.

So is it a shame or a good thing? Let's take a look. Praise the movie gods, Shyamalan has finally come around to the idea that good humor is good for any face, even if it's the mysterious face of a horrifying hoaxer. There's plenty of creepiness in this story, but as morning replaces evening, another Tyler joke replaces another horror. Or even crosses it right in the middle. Little Aussie Ed Oxenbould raps nicely and generally does a pretty good job with the role, though it's clear that the genre chosen by the author equally masks both the actors' strengths and their shortcomings. This feature is what the creators of mockumentary take advantage of when casting. In “The Visit”, too, there is not a single, even the most scraggly star. And the entire budget is five million, so what stars are there?

But Shyamalan knows how to create atmosphere. Fog, bare bushes, a naked grandmother with disheveled gray hair, lonely barns and wells filled with meanings, stairs to a dark basement - everything goes into action. Already on the second day of the children's stay, the viewer welcomes the day with laughter (thank you, movie gods!), the evening with nervous giggling, and the morning with an exhalation of relief. The Indian does not hesitate to use even the heavy artillery forbidden by the Geneva Convention - the “Boo!” effect. Pseudo-documentary uses it as a radical argument, and it does so very rarely, because it's scary enough. It doesn't occur once in the classic “The Blair Witch,” for example, and try watching that movie alone in a dark room. In “The Visit,” something noisy and unexpected jumps out in front of the camera five or six times. Of course, superimposed on the heightened realism, it works: you sit cringing, covering your eyes and clutching your chair every screen night.

In contrast to the rather inventive, funny and frightening action, the ending is a little disappointing - tearful and edifyingly familial, as if from another story. What do we know, though? Maybe some edifying-family maniac put a gun to a curly-haired Shyamalan's head? The result is only a minute long, but the impression is spoiled.

Nevertheless. Though M. Night Shyamalan is no longer blowing up brains, the patient is more alive than dead. The master's hand is still steady enough to make a curious movie. All his movies (well, or almost all of them), including “The Visit”, are watchable. There is no new “Sixth Sense” and is not expected. Well, that's fine - we'll make do with the old one or the usual five.