REVIEW: "Lady" Struggles to Focus Its CreativityREVIEW: "Lady" Struggles to Focus Its Creativity
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After a slight delay, M. Night Shyamalan Online's official review of Lady in the Water is now online. It is, as you might have expected, somewhat mixed, though it's not nearly as critical as as most of the film's reviews. Here's a quote:
"...the film's silliness is tolerable, and even charming, when the characters involved are aware of it. Unfortunately, as the film goes on it increasingly glosses over their skepticism and self-consciousness about what they're doing, turning into merely a story, rather than a story about people who wonder whether or not they're in a story; a far more compelling concept that we're given tantalizing glimpses of throughout the film's 110 minute runtime." Click here to read the entire review.
Lady in the Water, while personally disappointing to me, is not as bad as the critics have suggested. Its shortcoming is its ultimate inability to harness its own ample creativity. I suspect most filmmakers would love to have that sort of problem.
Posted by Chris on Jul-23, 5:22 am
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