This has a really great original story and for the most part seemed to carry it off well enough.
However, there are some truly great clunking moments scattered around the film's running time which annoyingly bring you out of its spell, Also, Shyamalan's shoehorning of his daughter's song in the beginning during the car trip was a case of awful nepotism.
That ending though.
Why did it all have to be tidied up and presented to us in such a banal and unneeded fashion?
The ending could've come 5 or 10 minutes earlier without the need for the unnecessary exposition and police interference.
Ending it at the point of the big reveal that the lab was simply able to do research at a rate quicker than previously ever thought possible was jaw-dropping. The fact that innocent people had to die as a result of possibly saving hundreds of thousands more left the viewer with a moral quandary. Here is where I think the movie should have ended for a more shocking impact.
However, there are some truly great clunking moments scattered around the film's running time which annoyingly bring you out of its spell, Also, Shyamalan's shoehorning of his daughter's song in the beginning during the car trip was a case of awful nepotism.
That ending though.
Why did it all have to be tidied up and presented to us in such a banal and unneeded fashion?
The ending could've come 5 or 10 minutes earlier without the need for the unnecessary exposition and police interference.
Ending it at the point of the big reveal that the lab was simply able to do research at a rate quicker than previously ever thought possible was jaw-dropping. The fact that innocent people had to die as a result of possibly saving hundreds of thousands more left the viewer with a moral quandary. Here is where I think the movie should have ended for a more shocking impact.