Night makes this worth watching...

Rating: 8/10 (15 August 2002)

Big Spoilers. Do not read if you haven't seen this movie.
If this film was done by another director, we may not get the same result. Shyamalan appears to have alot of skils in terms of making these types of movies...building up tensions and story line. He uses 'silence' very well and certain scenes are very well done. (Like in a scene when every family members were standing there listening to the dog barking outside and suddenly there was yelping and silence. Replacing it is the sound of the clock ticking.)
However, I must say that he is not very good (or is still in the process of perfecting the skill) in bringing across messages...He attempt to 'say' something deep in unbreakable and again in this film.

The directing in this film alone is worth watching...plus some really well thought out dialogs and a good storyline (although the ending is alittle weak). These type of stories can only have two possible endings. Either there are aliens or it is all a hoax. If one chooses the alien path, one may fall into the problem of giving the story a shallow ending. The water concept was alittle silly (bringing the movie down to the line of Mars Attack). A movie which manages to overcome this story progression problem with flying colors is Contact.