So bad, it's well, bad.

Rating: 1/10 (30 July 2004)

If you only see one film this year, make sure it's not this one. This movie is boring, predictable, and at 107 minutes, overly long.
Perhaps the director should concentrate less on trying to achieve some kind of mystical aura in making all his movies 107 minutes long and focus on what's contained in those 107 minutes.
With the "Sixth Sense", I used to think this was a brilliant director, but with three more movies under his belt, I have relegated him to no more than a third rate hack, and am beginning to wonder who was really responsible for the final cut of that landmark, and thought provoking first film.
The infamous Shyamalan plot twist ends up to be nothing more than vintage "Twilight Zone", and one we have seen many, many times before (and seen it done much better).
In my assessment of this film, I may be wrong, the professional critics may be wrong, but the audience of around 600 movie goers I saw the film with was probably not. They laughed almost non-stop during the entire film. Not a good sign for a film billed with drama in it's description.
Perhaps the studio can salvage the film by re-billing it as the "Exciting New Comedy from M. Night Shyamalan".