not another Spielberg

Rating: Null/10 (24 September 2004)

Spoiler....
The film is similar to his last. The premise is very unrealistic, actually absurd, if you think about it in some detail. But it's only the McGuffin of a Hitchcock film. It serves to tell another story where there are monsters indeed, but they don't hide in the woods. Shyamalan is not another Spielberg. More another Dreyer. The cast is good and Newton Howard's score a big asset. I hope he gets an Oscar nomination for it, because without it the film were only half as memorable as it is. Coming back to Hitchcock, Newton Howard is Shyamalan's Bernard Herrman. And you get the Hitchcock cameo in this one too, a voice and a reflection.