Oh, the pain

Rating: 2/10 (25 May 2003)

In this movie we follow a mentally unstable family getting even more unstable when aliens decides to come for a visit. The story itself tries to be not so much about the aliens, but more about the main character's loss of faith after his wife died in an accident. This is illustrated by a lot of whispering, soul-searching and annoying one-liner slogan conversations with his family. We got the obligatory "smart kid" as in the other Shyamalan movies, being very very serious, never smiling once throughout the movie. Also, the "can't get to the medicine and will die" situation from Panic Room, Con Air and heaps of other movies was added for increased excitement. The mood music was annoying, the camera work was the typical "First film the people looking at something scary, then after too much waiting, show what they were looking at". Aargh! There's not really much more to say. This movie is stupid.