Although I understood the concept of the movie, I still did not enjoy it

Rating: 6/10 (2 August 2004)

Before I decided to write about this movie I read what everyone else had to say about the movie. Let me start off by saying that I understand why some people are getting upset at the fact that lots of people are bashing this movie and saying that it is stupid, and has no plot because that is not true. However, the movie does not have a plot that would be visible to someone coming in to the movie expecting something totally different. But thats the problem, the previews to this movie had EVERYONE expecting something totally different. Nobody that saw the previews to this movie can deny that they went to the theater with the intentions on seeing a horror movie, and those people, including myself, were disappointed at the fact that we were actually viewing a movie that went a completely different direction. As someone else said about this movie earlier, maybe if I knew for a fact that M. Night was not attempting to have me jump 20 times during the movie or leave me with the fear of going to sleep that night, maybe i would have enjoyed the film a little more. BUT, because I expected to see a horror movie and did not get that, i was very disappointed. All I can say is that if you plan on seeing this movie, go into it with a open mind, and maybe you'll enjoy it a little more than I did.