Expected enjoyable messing with my head - got pseudo-mystical SF claptrap

Rating: 1/10 (6 April 2006)

Having mostly enjoyed earlier works by M. Night Shyamalan because of their surprise endings which put the whole work into a different perspective, I stuck with this right through to the end hoping that the increasingly ludicrous plot would turn out to be explained as some kind of hallucination or something. Imagine my disappointment when the incredibly stupid, unconvincing alien invasion turns out to be just what it seemed to be! Oh, and Mel Gibson's acting is wooden, and the faith vs reason 'subplot' underlying the film has about as deep as a shallow puddle. The film neither scared me nor made me think. I want 106 minutes of my life back.