A Complete Disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (15 June 2008)

An uninspired performance by Mark Wahlberg and the rest of the cast poisons this film. Aside from a few select scenes, emotion is absent as characters watch those they know kill themselves.
The scarce emotion that does exist seems misplaced. Betty Buckley's performance as Mrs. Jones, an old woman who has avoided contact with other people for years is laughable. Her random transitions between a kind hostess and a paranoid witch are awkward and comical when it shouldn't be. Buckley never seemed to decide how to play the character, and the strange directing did not help.
The plot itself was decent at best. The plant outlook felt thrown at the audience so often that the ending didn't have any shock to it. All in all, it's an intriguing concept by M. Night Shyamalan that simply does not translate well onto the big screen.