Is America Insane?

Rating: 1/10 (26 August 2002)

This was the epitome of Hollywood run amuck. This was a very boring, very pretentious film. I can not understand why American audiences are going to this film in droves. This could have been a $1 million low-budget film. In fact, minus the huge salaries of Gibson, Night and the rest of the Above-the-line talent, it looks like that's all they spent.
I felt watching this film that Night has started to believe his own hype that he's the next Speilberg. This is not the same craftsman that made the wonderful "6th Sense." It felt like he made decisions because he could, rather than what was best for the film. Example: why bother bringing in the best VFX Producer in Hollywood (Erik Brevig) to design and supervise the alien when you never get to see the alien for more than seconds at a time? The same affect could have been done better and cheaper with a Stan Winston or Rik Baker monster creation.
This is a tremendously disappointing effort. I'm more disappointed in America for watching this crap than the filmmakers for making it.