A Director Riding on One Hit

Rating: 2/10 (27 December 2004)

M. Night Shyamalan is the perfect Hollywood example of the one-hit wonder that Hollywood keeps pouring more money into in the hope lightning will strike a second time. Luckily for M. or Night or whatever it is, he left this drek and 'Signs' and 'Unbreakable' as his most recent offerings, otherwise 'The Sixth Sense' would never have have seen the light of day.
Without going into the plot, which is basically 'we have seen the world and it is bad, so let's hide out in our houses until, say, the second coming.' Followed by 'oops, somebody's breeched the perimeter' Kind of like in 'Children of the Corn' and fifty other films since the days of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Although better, and in less time.
Nope, M. is a director of Halle Berry proportions - a one note pony that Hollywood continues to bank on despite limited and repetitive ideas.