a bit heavy on the religious...

Rating: 6/10 (26 August 2002)

M. Night Shyamalan has again delivered a very watchable movie. The actors performances were well done. What did bother me was the bold assertion that superstitious people (IE: people who believe in miracles) are better prepared to handle adversity than rational people. The movie is a good, old-fashioned, return to the horror movies of the fifties, portraying off-world aliens as monsters. And the movie is fun on that level. I just did not appreciate the heavy-handed religious message. I get enough of that in the newspaper and on the radio every day.