An Honest Review

Rating: 10/10 (10 December 2016)

Most of the negative criticism are based on two things, the first is that the director cast himself in a minor role and the second his how the aliens are defeated.
Once more it illustrates the pathological hatred for a director that doesn't cut and past the same old stories.
The haters fail to realize that a lot of the directors they praise sneak themselves into films. It's just a given. It happens all the time.
And then the ending, how the aliens were defeated. Here we have Shyamalan attempting to give the audience something original, a plot twist that they haven't seen before. A reason for life to go on after the alien invasion, a way out to keep them from totally conquering the planet.
And instead of praising the originality, the fact that it may even be a subtle nod to War of the World's without blatantly ripping off the book, they once more nail the director to the cross for not delivering the same old thing they see every day.
Ignore all the hate.
What you have is a moving story about faith, family, redemption, and...aliens.
It is clever, moving, suspenseful, and funny all at the same time and, that is not something you get in every movie.
It's not the typical alien invasion movie where earth is triumphant through force of arms and guerilla warfare. You really only see one family protecting their home. It's what a movie should be.