The score made the movie

Rating: 7/10 (19 June 2008)

I love M. Night Shyamalan. He's a brilliant writer/director and I've been so impressed with his unique ideas or twists on previously attempted genres. This movie, however, I didn't really enjoy. Though, it is not for the same reasons as most other reviewers have stated.
The movie delivered no one-liners, no stand up acting from any particular actor/actress, and no real climax. Those are the good things. It felt real. The characters reacted in a very human way, no heroes, the lines didn't feel scripted. It felt as though the person sitting next to me would react the same way. Amazingly realistic. Almost too realistic. But, MNS has always been one to push the boundaries.
What I did not like was MNS's finding his way into the box of the environmentalist. Because of the huge "green" push and global warming phenomenon, we've seen a large rush of that in Hollywood. I thought MNS was better than that. Though the thoughts are underlying and he does a fantastic job of presenting the issue in a different light, we still see the "humans as pests" ideas and the overpopulation theories at work. I don't like the boxed up Shyamalan. Nothing against environmentalist but we've heard and seen enough of it. Keep it out of my thrillers.
The best part of the whole movie and probably the biggest reason to see it is the score. Brilliant. Simply stunning. The music made the movie. Had the score not been as wonderful, the movie would not be worth seeing.
Overall 7/10 in my book. But the score was the aspect that moved it from a 5 to a 7.