The Best Waste Of Time award

Rating: 1/10 (23 December 2010)

This movie, if you would like to call it that, is nothing more than an embarrassment to anyone with the slightest of intelligence. It's quite horrific and painful to endure something so pretentious, yet the story still thumbs it's nose at you, asking you silently, "Are you still here, watching me sucka?" This piece rates up there with a Uwe Boll film.
It should have won an Academy Award for The Best Waste Of Time. In fact, I can't wait to buy the Blu-ray edition so I can waste more time listening to M. Night on the bonus features talk about how good he is and that his idol is Alfred Hitchcock. Also, he does a cameo for every single one of his films in his Honor. How unoriginal is that???? More like blatant plagiarism, I would concur.
One has to wonder how M. Night ever became a director. Further investigation on Wikipedia, reveals an affluent upbringing and 8mm camera, a most unusual combination for a pretentious young spoiled Indian kid. I tend to give directors a chance and watch some of their other "work". Oddly, I could not but help notice his films share a similar vein amongst themselves. It almost seems he uses a cookie cutter template for his script and drops in fresh character names for his next movie. Nothing like beating an already dead Harp Seal, right?
We see the same mundane story unfold in front of us for each of his new releases, yet he manages to ensnare some big name celebrities to draw us in like a moth to a candle. Is there not any more pre-screening allowed? Oh, and isn't life grand when you have a lot of money but no imagination?