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Rating: 7/10 (9 August 2002)

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Up until the last five or so minutes, I quite enjoyed this atmospheric thriller, wrestling with a growing sense of unease reminiscent of what I experienced during 'The Others'. But then Hollywood predictability took over and the whole thing nosedived into socially-acceptable, tacked-on schmaltz and I just yawned.
OK, so there's two groups of people in the world, according to the movie. But why do things always level out on the side of the first group, those who believe in a higher being dictating events/lack of coincidence, just to appease a God-fearing society and probably the film's backers? What about a voice for us lot in the second "sh*t happens" group for once?
And why did M. Night Shyamalan feel the need to show us that rubbery 'alien' wobbling about at the end? After all that had gone before it, did it scare ANYONE? Really, much scarier to have left it remain unseen....come back Blair Witch Project, all is forgiven!
But a nice cast, even in tin foil hats. So not a total bust!