An Absolute Bore

Rating: 2/10 (19 January 2005)

Finally after a week of daily trips to the video store I had the opportunity to rent this film, which is constantly unavailable. What a letdown. What a stinker. What an utter bore. What a sleeper in the sense that it made me want to go to sleep. What a waste of time and money. What was it all about anyways? This was the most drawn out, overbearing, gut wrenchingly dull film I've seen in the longest time.
Apparrently Mr. M. "Night" Shyamalan seems to think he is a legend. He must be since his name is above the name of the movie, just like in films like "Steven Spielbergs ET", "Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather" and "Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver". He is so legendary that he puts a 3 minute film of himself in the extra segments on each DVD; films from his childhood showing how brilliant he was even then as an actor and director.
The fact is he is very over rated. Until his body of work grows to the lengths and consistency of true greats, the addition of his name to the films titles will only be an act of ego not legend.
This movie was a waste of time. Yeah, the acting was good. The directing was fine. The production was very nice. But it left me with a feeling of "that's it???", when it all was over. Boooooooooorrrrrrriiiiinnnnngggggggggg.