Lame

Rating: Null/10 (27 January 2003)

It's official. I am not a fan of M.Night Shyamalan and his lame Spielberg-lite nonsense. And would someone please tell Mel Gibson that he doesn't do "emotional" very well or rather he overdoes it all too well. The films other flaws have been pretty well covered in other post but let me add just one more observation. I didn't really get the sense that there was a massive global invasion going on despite all the news coverage that the family watched. I just didn't feel it and that "news" scene where someone got a shot of an alien during a child's birthday party was incredibly anticlimactic despite the news anchor telling us that the footage we were about to see was "very disturbing". Oh please. The "alien" looked just like the guy in that old photo of Bigfoot that turned out to be a hoax.
This is definitely the last Shyamalan I will ever bother to see.