“Lady In The Water” stars overlooked actor Paul Giamatti (Sideways), and Bruce Dallas Howard, known for her breakthrough performance in “The Village”. Written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, this is his most insufficient film yet.

An apartment superintendant find a woman named Story swimming in his outdoor pool. This mysterious woman claims to be a “Narf” in need of help. Being chased by a creature called a “Scrunt”. This underwater lady must find her way back to the Blue World and the only way to do this is by flight of an eagle that is suppose to come and rescue her. With the help of the stuttering superintendent, she hope to make it back to her water-dwelling world.

When the opening scene is the best scene in a movie, you know something went drastically wrong. I was very engaged from the opening scene with the hieroglyphics. The movie was slowly paced and the directing was top-notch sleaziness. All of M. Night Shamalyan’s films have been going downhill, but this one hits rock bottom, giving me confidence to say that everything from here is uphill. A very tame and spiritless film from a very subtle filmmaker. An embarrassing attempt at making a worth while movie experience.

Having such a disappointing and discouraging ending, once again felt riped-off by renting this bedtime movie. It will put you to sleep if you have a bad case of insomnia. Don’t expect to be shocked, amazed, or even in this case entertained by any moment in the movie. The trailer made it seem like a horror movie, when in fact it is more like a poorly written children’s story. This gives me confidence that his next film can’t be any worse than this one. A fluke and a total mess of a movie.

With a hefty amount of razzie nominations under it’s belt, I would have to say this was worst than any other movie made that year. A completely absurd film. The underdeveloped screenplay and horrendously bad acting proves that M. Night Shyamalan had no idea as to what he was doing. Bad dialog and careless acting as if they were forced to play the roles. What a sinker this movie turned out to be. M. Night Shyamalan’s first true misfire and simply the worst film of 2006.

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