Good... but not in the way you might expect

Rating: 6/10 (21 January 2007)

The first M. Night Shyamalan picture I saw was "the sixth sense", it was excellently directed and managed to be scary using both strong visual images, psychological horror and of course, a great twist.
when it came to watching this, I was hoping for more of the same, however I must say that this is a league away from the Sixth sense, but not necessarily in a bad way. The film kind of feels like a mainstream scary movie, and as a result of this isn't actually scary at all (the part with the alien holding the kid was just laughable), however Shyamalan makes the story compelling and there are several moments of tension, for example when Mel Gibson is in the crop field or when the family are arguing at dinner.
It's although worth mentioning that the movie is quite funny at times, for example Joaquin Phoenix explaining (his delivery of this line is great) that "crop circles are made by a bunch of geeky guys with no girlfriends and too much spare time".
Overall, it's relatively entertaining and probably worth seeing, just don't expect anything earth shattering