This is the Only One....

Rating: 7/10 (23 July 2013)

Of all the M. Night Shamalyan films that have been made (out of which I've seen five or six) this film (The Sixth Sense) is the only one I liked. Probably because it is the only one with a reasonably consistent plot that has a nice logical (but quirky) ending. All the others are full of loose ends that never come together, are illogical or have endings that are not explained or so contrived that I can only call them 'cop outs'. An example is 'Signs' which ends with a very small alien invasion by creatures intelligent enough to travel from the stars but who cannot figure out how to break into a rickety old barn who get so frustrated that they simply disappear. I suppose they get back into their starship and go home. As to who these alien gents are, where they came from or what they want is never explained and is really unrelated to anything else in the film. Shamalyan's work is very sloppy. What should be clever plot twists or fascinating endings turn out to be foolish tries, very falsely contrived or just too impossible to suspend disbelief. He must think we are all idiots. Guess who I think is the real idiot?