Trying too hard. The recursive revisiting of scenes is the sort of thing I usually find really interesting but it was pointless here. The entire thing was full of superfluous ornament and forced gravity. They should have had David Mamet come in with a black magic marker and carefully black out every line of the entire script.
I always try to see Shyamalan films in the theater because, well, I respect him for sticking to his particular thing, even if it sometimes (recently, often) doesn’t work. And I just like a parable. Signs and Unbreakable are my two favorite Shyamalan films. Anyway, Ebert liked this one. And the New York Times didn’t completely dismiss it. Alas, this just didn’t hold together. I liked what the New Yorker said though, about what it really needed was Val Lewton to come along and fix ‘er up.
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