Most of you may think that I like everything, but if you pay close attention there are certain things I hate. I usually don't like wasting my time on talking about things I don't like. I have to really, really hate something enough to make me care enough to even mention it. M. Night Shyamalan is one of those things. Go back and read what I had to say about the pile of shit that is The Village. Anyway, let's get this started. Here are a few of the quick quotes from RT so far (13% right now with only 8 reviews in):
"Shyamalan does project genuine menace and suspense into this mundane location, especially in nighttime scenes. But the magic that would transport you from reality into fantasy is missing."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Shyamalan has followed The Village with another disappointment -- a ponderous, self-indulgent bedtime tale."
-- Brian Lowry, VARIETY
"This misbegotten project is Shyamalan's weakest thriller--senseless, verbose, convoluted. It might be remembered for featuring the director himself as a wannabe writer, and a film critic from hell who complains, there are no original stories left..."
-- Emanuel Levy, EMANUELLEVY.COM
"Shyamalan is mystically assuming that any idea or image that pops into his skull will make a shapely tale, no matter how much cock-and-bull logic he has to invent to Gorilla Glue it together."
-- Michael Atkinson, VILLAGE VOICE
"Like Splash reworked by a grandiose Sunday-school teacher."
-- David Edelstein, NEW YORK MAGAZINE
"The premise -- a mystical water nymph living under the swimming pool of a drab apartment complex -- is intriguing, yet the mythology Shyamalan builds around his main characters is forced, pretentious and outright silly at times."
-- David Germain, ASSOCIATED PRESS
And my personal favorite so far:
"Has M. Night Shyamalan lost his damn mind?"
-- Sean Burns, PHILADELPHIA WEEKLY
Here is the entire review for that one. I'm putting it in spoiler tags since it does reveal a few things: