Better sense

Rating: Null/10 (5 September 1999)

might have kept me from entering the multiplex to wince at a terribly miscast (Who with any sense would?) Bruce Willis & his plastered on tuft of a hairpiece for much of the 106 minute running time,
might have afforded the splendid Toni Collette a couple of months more at an ashram far far from Philly, and spared her nails the six shades of lacquer that shone brightest in medium close-ups,
certainly would have been for a talented writer/director like M. Night Shyamalan to seek out auspices less determined on a 90%< approval rating at test screenings (and all of Touchstone's calculated marketing tweaks), and to finally make a dark, deeply disturbing, original work of art.