A failed movie franchise

Ever since ‘The Sixth Sense’ turned out to be one of the most overrated movies ever made, I had my doubts about M. Night Shyamalan’s qualities as a director. However, even if I had some doubts, I have to admit that the guy had some skills and I would have never expected his career to become such a disaster. Indeed, not so long ago, a movie directed by this guy was patiently awaited by movie fans around the world. I mean, up to ‘The Village’ or, at least, ‘Signs’, his movies were quite successful at the box-office. But it all changed with the dreadful ‘Lady in the Water’ (which is still his worst movie so far). Indeed, nowadays, all his movies are awaited with dread and they all crash and burned at the box-office and they are always destroyed by the critics. With this movie, it seemed that Shyamalan was going towards a complete new direction and, even though I was maybe in the minority, I thought that the whole thing actually had some potential. Indeed, even though I never really followed this TV show, I did watch it a couple of times with my kids and, if done properly, it could be turned into an awesome franchise. Unfortunately, the end-result was just terribly weak and underwhelming, frustrating all the fans of this beloved TV-show. The outcry at the time was so huge that, even though it was quite successful internationally, any planned sequels was just cancelled. Visually, it was not bad but the plot and characters were just really poorly developed. This could be linked to the bizarre decision to adapt a 20-episode TV season into only 90 minutes. Anyway, it was another mess coming from this director and it is considered by many as one of the worst movies ever made. To conclude, in my opinion, honestly, it was not as bad as 'Lady in the water' but it was still a very average flick.