intriguing

Rating: 8/10 (14 September 2001)

Needless to say, after Sixth Sense, I watched this film with high expectations. Though it's no Sixth Sense, M. Night is one of the most interesting storytellers around. He manages to hold the audience's interest even with a rather slow pace which somehow didn't feel boring. This is a film about skewed perspective - we see constant images of things upside down. It's about opposites - comic book heroes and villains, ying and yang. And, as seems to be M. Night's trademark, it's about surprises. I'll take one of his movies over any overhyped junk any day.