Torturous and Tepid

Rating: 2/10 (8 January 2003)

No beating around the bush here - Shyamalan's movie promised much before viewing it and reneged twice on that promise. Anyone remotely familiar with crop circles won't think much of their treatment in this flick. Mysteriously done, sometimes stunningly complex and beautiful, they're used as a gee whiz prop early on and then disregarded as fast as a highway sign at 60 mph. The pacing in the film seems quite a bit off too - slow and plodding as compared to the immediacy of the strange events. And without spoiling anything here, c'mon, what farmhouse in rural PA don't have no shotgun, ya know? 2 out of 10.