the whole, the parts

Rating: 6/10 (22 September 2001)

The movie has great ending, although only foreshadowed a tiny a bit. It's not really fair to set the viewers like that with out some fair waring, IMHO. The camera angles were great, but over done. It's very obvious that the director is trying to impress you with the inventive camera angles, but they don't really seem to further the story line. Those were the great parts of the movie.
My big negative on this movie were the characters. The stated reasons that the character were acting the way they did, and the relationships between them all seemd like B.S. There was also a depressing lack of humor or action in between the interesting parts. The suspense was there and enough to keep me watching, but just barely.
I think this was simply a self indulgent film that Shyamalan allowed himself to make in order celebrate the success of the 6th sense. I hope his next effort will appeal to wider audience.