After the exceptional use that he put Bruce Willis's pained whisper to in the moody Sixth Sense, then managing to hit the superhero genre from a totally unconventional angle with Unbreakable, great things were rightly expected of Shyamalan as a figurehead for intelligent films on the supernatural. Promptly, he did his damnedest to disabuse us of this notion with a succession of duds increasing in stink, recycled elements growing increasingly threadbare. However here he may have just arrested the slide. Waves of mass suicides erupt across the eastern seaboard of the United States and are believed to be caused by terrorism. Oddly, what saves this disaster movie is Shyamalan's overreliance on the weird, as the environment itself, pushed too far by man, is revealed as the cause. The unconventional nature of the menace hence elevates a B-movie riddled with illogicalities to something the director hasn't achieved for years: it's actually eerie. It's not much to crow about, but I wouldn't write him off just yet.
5/10
5/10
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