It's Clear Who he Wants to be Just as it's Clear he Never Will be

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2004)

I feel very bad for M. Night. He has built up quite a reputation. People were eagerly anticipating his next move. People were talking about him. He was loved! He was great! He could do no wrong! He must have believed his own hype. He shot for the moon and missed by a mile. His skill of building up suspense could not save him.
For me bad dialog can ruin a movie. The dialog in this movie was unpleasant to say the least. It was like a B movie's impression of what a bunch of turn of the century people would speak like. I believe this was probably deliberate, but come on, does he really have to torture us for 75 minutes before he tells us why.
The reason I say he wants to be Hitch is his unbelievably pretentious cameo at the end of the film. The camera can't show him that would be too obvious we should see him in a reflection, you know we're all watching for him, it makes it so happy to spot him. What the hell was that scene doing in the movie anyway.