I'm sorry but M. Night Shyamalan has no sense of rhythm

Rating: 7/10 (13 January 2001)

PLOT SPOILERS AHEAD
OK, so I didn't figure out the twist this time, even though it was basically the same mechanism as in the Sixth Sense (there's a gifted person and a mentor, what if the gifted guy's gift is applied on the mentor as well).
And thank God for that, because if I had, again the experience would have been quite pointless. I admit this time I enjoyed it a bit more, one or two scenes stood out (the kid with the gun, Jackson facing the stairs) but still: The problem with Shyamalan's two films is that they are ideas, high concepts, which I think would be great for a short or a medium length feature, but they're just too thin for the two hour movie format. They rely too heavily on the final revelation to make sense, and while you wait for it to come, they lack any semblance of pace and go awwwwfully slowly. If at least Shyamalan was able to come up with other engaging plots to ease the wait, but his attempts (the stories of each ghost in SS, the shaky marriage and the psycho squatter in this one) are just too weak and go nowhere, on top of that Shyamalan seems to need to make time by coming back to things again and again (OK, I'll try my gift on the cameoing director and.. oops no, it didn't work. But after remembering something I already knew anyway, I'll try again and hey, what do you know, in two minutes I found a weirdo psychopath). I was downright bored at times and the only thing that kept me in my seat was the knowledge that Shyamalan would come up with something good for the end. But you know that's not the way it should be.
I hope Shyamalan drops the formula for his next film and does something more solid, or else I'm going to stop buying the hype and wait for the videos.