Give them something for trying but it is way short of even fair....

Rating: 3/10 (2 August 2002)

In "Sillywood" the rule is; you can do something daring and if it works you are considered a genius. Thereafter, if you do something daring and it doesn't work...you are still a genius for a few tries but the stinkers better go away soon or the "Genius" of The Sixth Sense" will be washed away by YUCK-O's like Unbreakable and now SIGNS!!!!
So our "genius" in this case, young Night Shyamalan, goes after the gold ring again with a story that for want of any other good explanation is really just too big a bite to chew and there is no place to spit it out!
A sci-fi flick with two blockbuster stars like Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix, I mean it can't lose right?
OOPS! It will in all likelihood make a mint but it is really dull and off beat and tries way too hard to be funny, scary, smart, and original all at once. The facts are this. I jumped once from a boom or quick camara shot to something bright. I even laughed at a few things while I was trying to figure out where this thing might be trying to go?
But in the end I was bored and as I am so many times full of a sense of having been cheated out of my eight dollars.
Mel Gibson is way better than this material.
Joaquin Phoenix took a mile deep drop down from his role in Gladiator.
The only bright part was Abigail Breslin as Bo Hess. She was wonderful, believable, and a delight. In fact she is why I didn't give the thing a 2 out of ten. But 3 out of ten is pretty poor.
Save your money. I wish I had.