Not bad at all!

Rating: 2/10 (14 June 2008)

I wasn't sure what to expect from this movie but I have been intrigued by it for many months now for two reasons:
a) M Night Syhamalan generally delivers a good story with a killer twist
b) It looked quite spooky and bizarre in the trailer and I wanted to know what was "happening".
I was a little apprehensive about it as I thought Lady in the Water was plain awful but The Sixth Sense, Signs and The Village were all very good and Unbreakable was interesting enough to keep my attention so I figured it would be a good story! I was right...
From the opening scene my attention was grabbed and I was thrown in full throttle as people started killing themselves for absolutely no reason. The first 5 minutes is deeply disturbing and brilliantly shot and for the next half hour or so it is intense and captivating in every way...but then that changes! Within 40 minutes you know what is "happening" and it is a little disappointing and not a great deal happens in the next 40 minutes (but there is one scene involving a lawn mower which is great). But then the last 10 minutes picks it up again and there are some real jumpy moments and then we get a nice ending and a decent closing scene.
All in all this is much better than I expected and some critics have slammed it - I personally would give 8/10 for the first 40 minutes, 4/10 for the next 40 minutes and 8/10 for the last 10 minutes which rounds up to a nice...
7/10
Go see it, it isn't all that bad!