I fear that M. Night Shyamalan is trying to hard to replace Alfred Hitchcock

Rating: 1/10 (4 August 2004)

Being a rather huge fan of Alfred Hitchcock, seeing all of his movies as such, I must say, I would have thought that I would be intrigued by M. Night Shyamalan, however I did not realize at the time he would try to replace Hitchcock instead of trying to reach further levels in the film-making industry. I must admit this is a vast disappointment. You see, first you must understand nobody can ever replace Hitchcock, so M. Night Shyamalan trying to be like Hitchcock (i.e. making nonchalant appearances in the movies, wondering where and when he will pop up) will simply never work. Rather one would hope in this day and age, that Shyamalan would try to go beyond what Hitchcock envisioned, what Hitchcock was able to bring to the screen. There are always twists, upon twists, upon twists in these movies, that is a given, however when I first saw The Sixth Sense, it was obvious Bruce Willis was not among the living, Signs, really the same, you rather already know what would happen and with this latest project, you would have expected far greater things from Shyamalan, and to which to say I was disappointed is rather a vast understatement. Do not misunderstand, I enjoy the twists, upon twists and so forth, the ending, that is something I did not want to admit I expected, but when it was played out before my eyes, I didn't want to think Shyamalan was about to be just as obvious as in all of his other movies. One word of advice, Shyamalan has a brilliant head upon his shoulders, do not try to flatter Hitchcock by using the same techniques, compliment Hitchcock by rather taking his vision and bringing it to levels far above and beyond what Hitchcock himself ever dreamed possible. You would not want to be labeled as someone who copies Hitchcock, you would want to be known as someone all of your own, which Shyamalan rightfully deserves.
I truly wish Shyamalan all the best this world has to offer, I can only hope he takes some of it~