Same old Shyamalan

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2004)

Don't expect terror. It's not very scary. Remember M. Night Shyamalan has a clear style and has still not departed from it. He does not scare you with real obvious terror much, he lets an idea build over time and tries to make you uneasy gradually. He works your mind not your reflexes. The main point is that M. Night likes to create an idea that might be plausible in real life, although a stretch, believable in a movie and that he always uses a twist ending, that especially in this case, was easy to foresee and he tries to make a statement about human nature, which is the theme of this film, the monsters are not really the point, so if you come see this film for that, you will be disappointed. Expect the same statements to be true of future M. Night films. To a thoughtful person, a good, but not great film. Analogy of terror: what Ridley Scott's "Alien" was to James Cameron's "Aliens," if you are expecting scary.