Ingmar Bergman, Jr.

Rating: 8/10 (10 August 2002)

The movie was well done and entertaining, indeed, and it's nice to see that it's a truly popular movie, too. Many others have offered their opinions of the plot, the characterizations, and the director's point of view. I simply wanted to add that the movie's theme--an exploration, if you will, of man's faith--has already been produced into a cinematic masterpiece, namely, "The Seventh Seal." Instead of Death playing chess, however, we now have aliens as the driver of the plot. I'm afraid that Mr. Shyamalan, with his most recent movie, does not even come close to the mark set by Mr. Bergman, in a movie directed more than four decades ago.