Scared me - that's all that matters.

Rating: Null/10 (3 August 2002)

It's very hard for a film to scare me, and this one did. Yes, the ending was a disappointment.

SPOILER ALERT:
I wish they hadn't shown the alien so clearly at the end. Shyamalan should have kept the entire scene through the reflection of the TV screen (he did an extended scene through a TV screen in Unbreakable).

And the baseball bat fight seemed silly. In that situation, I don't think Pheonix would take the time to adjust his perfect batting stance -rather he would have swung over and over, until the thing was dead.
One other side-note: A lot of people are wondering why the aliens would invade a planet full of water, if that is their weakness? Here's a thought - maybe they're not! Perhaps it was holy water (since it was in a priest's house). And the daughter kept saying the water was bad and contaminated.
Speaking of which - anybody else here see the clues that set-up the daughter as an alien.
1) She doesn't like the water. 2) Her strange birth (smiling and having huge eyes). 3) Her psychic powers.
Maybe this was an idea in an earlier draft - the big twist ending, that they decided not to use at the end of the film.

END OF SPOILERS

Overall, some weird scenes that didn't fit can't hide the fact that the rest of this film is very very creepy.
oh, and anybody else think that that Army recruit officer was the WORST actor ever to stink up two minutes of a film?