It's the kind of a movie that I really like reviewing - those which could have been damn good, but missed out because of something.
In this case, it was flaws in Shyamalan's scenario. Guy commits suicide and they don't figure out what happened until much later, despite the glass on the sidewalk and a missing truck? But worst of all, it's the Ramirez's explanation of the whole plot at the very beginning, a very long and a very elaborate McGaffin. If they just removed that narration at the start (not needed, as Ramirez repeats it in the movie later), the whole movie would easily be a seven. This way it starts firmly supernatural, but then keeps giving these hints that the events might actually be natural, then it completes supernatural, just like it said it would at the start. If you fake to the right, that means you have to go left, you can't fake right and then actually go right. It takes a much better story teller to pull a double bluff.
The rest is pretty good, the director and the actors do a decent job, the movie is interesting and hold suspense well.
In this case, it was flaws in Shyamalan's scenario. Guy commits suicide and they don't figure out what happened until much later, despite the glass on the sidewalk and a missing truck? But worst of all, it's the Ramirez's explanation of the whole plot at the very beginning, a very long and a very elaborate McGaffin. If they just removed that narration at the start (not needed, as Ramirez repeats it in the movie later), the whole movie would easily be a seven. This way it starts firmly supernatural, but then keeps giving these hints that the events might actually be natural, then it completes supernatural, just like it said it would at the start. If you fake to the right, that means you have to go left, you can't fake right and then actually go right. It takes a much better story teller to pull a double bluff.
The rest is pretty good, the director and the actors do a decent job, the movie is interesting and hold suspense well.