Disgusting waste of celluloid and your time

Rating: 2/10 (10 July 2013)

I feel kind of bad for M. Night Shyamalan. The Sixth Sense, one of the best films of the 90's and one of the best plot twists of all time, ultimately sucked all the talent, potential and genius out of Shyamalan and left him as a stupid, egotistic moron who wouldn't know a plot if it was injected directly into his skull. And this is one of his worst films by far.
The only reason I have not given this film a 1/10 is because at least Shyamalan films have half-decent cinematography and he obviously puts a lot of effort into making his films look good. That's where the praise finishes. ALL the actors did a horrible job. Even Gibson's performance is flat and boring. Phoenix does a stereotypical white American jock hero sort of act and fails to give off any emotion. The actors who play the kids are also terrible, they did nothing but irritate me and their acting was bland and talentless. And of course Shyamalan sticks his ugly mug in for several scenes and tries to stammer out fancy sounding lines in an obvious attempt to boost his ego.
The worst parts of this train-wreck are the plot holes. Here we have aliens that can build spacecraft and travel billions of miles across the universe... and can't open a pantry door (and what does Mel do upon stumbling across this extra-terrestrial threat? Call the police? No, he goes home and acts like nothing happens, idiot). These aliens, to whom water is like a highly corrosive acid, choose to invade a planet that is mostly water, while naked, running around in air that's full of moisture, sprinting through cornfields that would be covered in water droplets in the morning, not taking into account things like rain, not bringing any tools, medical equipment, weapons or armor, and on top of all that, feeding on humans who are about 80% water. It's so STUPID it hurts. And their top secret communications? You can pick those up on a baby monitor. Please. Also, don't keep your son's life saving medication handy- he'll never need it.
That's not the only problem. This film bills itself as a science fiction thriller, but it's a thinly disguised Christian "regaining-of-faith" flick. Mel looses his faith after his wife is killed by a rouge driver, then he regains it again after he realizes her death rattle was a warning from God to help him defeat the aliens. So what does Mel say? He basically says "Thanks God", when he should have been questioning why God made him loose faith and then gave it back to him, only while KILLING his wife in the process! Come on! What a waste of God's time, Mel's time, our time, and some innocent person died for no reason because Mel ended right back at point A! This entire film disgusts me and insults the intelligence of reasonable people everywhere. In the end, I was hoping some of the Hess family would die because they irritated me so much. I almost got my hopes up when that brat started having a respiratory attack but then my hopes were quickly crushed. In the end, the message is "God will make you loose your faith, kill your loved ones, and then give your faith back". Good job Shyamalan, your writing and directing talents (but not your acting talents- your cameos suck) never cease to amaze me. This man should be BANNED from making movies.
2/10