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You can’t deny it that M. Night Shyamalan is a great filmmaker. But that’s not saying he still doesn’t have an ego problem, but that’s another story. Anyway this guy really knows what he is doing. Every movie he has made is in it’s own way a semi-masterpiece and one that will influence many films to come. We have already seen this with his prior films The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. But now he brings us another type of film in the genre and spreads new light on the alien take over theme. When you view this film you will forget you ever watched an alien take over film before this one because this movie makes everything fresh and remakes the laws you knew before, but yet at the same time they’re still the same, just coated different. The movie itself is powerful both image and dialogue wise. This film works on what you don’t see during the movie and sues that to create fear by showing speak peaks of what is actually going on. Of course this old builds up to the end when the Aliens finally land, an ending which compared to the first half of the movie is in truth a sort of slow down from the rest of the film as they are trapped in the basement and then surface to find something that has been left behind. One of the best scenes in the whole movie has to be when the alien is revealed on TV in a real quick glimpse. The footage is built up so well that it will make you jump when the alien show itself for those brief seconds. There is one thing in this film that is not need at all and is in fact as waste of time in a sense. I’m talking about the whole back story about Mel Gibson’s characters wife who was killed in a car wreck. I also didn’t get why the girl was drinking so much water as well, yes the aliens hate water but still what was with all the glasses and such? It’s not like it helped out any. Or maybe it was just a nod earlier in the film to water being the thing that can kill the aliens which is revealed later in the film. In the coming years I’m sure this film will gain as much recognition as the Sixth Sense has along with other great works.
