Rating of
2.5/4
What is happening here?!?
kcvidkid - wrote on 07/02/08
This movie was all right; it certainly did not deserve the critical damnation that it received upon opening. But I don't really know what to say about it.
I mean, it ranks nowhere near M. Night Shyamalan's best movies. It's sort of "dumbed-down": there is neither a twist ending nor a tiny detail that turns into a major plot development late in the movie. It's just a straightforward horror story with a little more gore thrown in to get an R rating.
The concept is great, although the unknown force effecting the entire population is quickly becoming overused. (By the time Stephen King's "Cell" is released, it will seem entirely unoriginal!) But here, the final explanation comes off as just silly; it would have been better to leave it completely unexplained that to say it was caused by... I won't ruin it for you.
You wouldn't believe me, anyway.
