Review of Lady in the Water (2006) by Brandon W — 22 Mar 2016

Lady in the Water is the only movie that I remember the least form M. Night Shylamian, and only remember the trailers from it when u was young. As is though, Lady in the Water is an all right movie that could've been better with a rewrite.

The acting is actually pretty good, especially Paul Giamatti. The first 30 or 40 minutes of the film is pretty decent which really would've work as a short movie, but it gets a bit more and more silly after that.

The script is all right, but could've been better even though it does metaphors for criticism which really got me annoyed as it ponder in that for that character who's a critic. The design of the creature is pretty cool and the effect is really nice.

It's pretentious, and the twist is predictable, although I'll give it credit to Shylamian to make it small and not big like his other films, except for After Earth which didn't had any, although this is the better movie.

I was interested in it, and there are some funny moments, both intentional and unintentional. I do see the effort that Shylamian made in this and with a story like this, it can create a good movie out of it, but the execution of it is mediocre which I'm gonna guess that this the last movie that M.

Night Shylamian put effort into, until The Visit that is.