Very edgy

Rating: 9/10 (12 August 2002)

This movie puts you on the edge of your seat from the opening credits and doesn't let up. I thought M. Night did a fantastic job making this one of the most suspenseful movies I've seen in a long time. There are moments of comic relief, but they are not too heavy handed as to take away from the suspense. I do think that M. Night's story telling is still a bit amateurish in spots though. I don't understand why he feels like he needs to hit us over the head with his message sometimes (e.g. the whole "that's why he has asthma" thing). However, it does make you think which is something that is very much lacking in most of the movies made by Hollywood today.