a total stinkeroo

Rating: 2/10 (20 January 2017)

An overall 7.2 rating? What a commentary on popular taste.
This is not the worst movie I've ever seen. There was, after all, Plan Nine from Outer Space, Lost Horizon (1973), Pi, Lady in a Cage, and other assorted atrocities. But it definitely is in the neighborhood.
If this an example of this Shyamalan fellow's supposed genius, I am decidedly unimpressed.
Let's start with the pacing, which is on the level of watching paint dry or corn grow. Then there is the central plot idea, which goes way beyond suspension of disbelief. The concept is just simply preposterous.
Bruce Willis appears to have been sedated. Samuel Jackson does the best he can with the ridiculous lines he must read. And as far as the supposed "surprise ending," give me a break, please. And the phony closing wrapups which try to make us believe this really happened, puh-leeeez.
Fortunately I had nothing better to do during the time I watched this dog, otherwise I'd be looking for a way to get my 106 minutes back.