Man oh man, what a waste of 8 bucks and 2 hours...

Rating: 1/10 (2 August 2004)

As is generally the case with movies by M. Night Shyamalan, there is little one can say in a review without spoiling the film entirely. What I can say without doing that is that this film contains some of the worst acting, most ridiculous dialogue, dreadfully boring camera work (from the otherwise venerable Roger Deakins, no less!), and idiotic plot twists I have ever seen in a nationally released theatrical motion picture - truly worthy of Mystery Science Theatre 3000. William Hurt...well, he's always been that way...but Weaver, Phoenix, and Gleeson (who has 3 whole scenes) are totally wasted on this movie, and Adrian Brody really should fire his agent over this steaming pile. It's that awful.
Other than being just plain boring, I will give this much away, hopefully without ruining this turkey for anyone willing to take the risk I did -- SPOLIER AHEAD, FOLKS!
If you are hoping to check out a monster movie, don't get your hopes up. This movie plays like a neverending episode of "Little House on the Prairie" if it were directed by Lars von Trier with a cast of puppets with severely retarded children providing the movement and voices for them. 1/10. What a waste.