who are you trying to kid?

Rating: Null/10 (4 January 2003)

m. night. shyamalan is guilty of TRYING to build suspenseful stories. i liked the sixth sense. unbreakable showed a weakness. signs confirmed it. he's an action movie director trying to give us slow-building suspense. building to what? joaquin phoenix hitting a guy in an alien suit with a baseball bat? why? this is essentially a sci-fi movie where you are allowed to make up your own rules and then hide behind those rules as an explanation. you might as well be making the wes craven-whatever-it-takes-to-move-the-plot-along-jeeperscreepers-movies. my wife "prophesied" my brother "swinging away" at an alien with a baseball bat that i "see". you know what? i think i'll be a reverend again. this is just a lame sci-fi movie trying to hide behind religion and drama. it's a lame attempt that i have to dismiss as one of the worst movies i have seen this year.