93/100

"Morgan, after you were born, the doctor gave you to your mother. When she first looked at you, you just stared right back. You both just stared at each other for longest time, and you didn't even cry."

Faith as horror. Family in the process of rebuilding. Suspense within silences. Terrifying and beautiful in a way I can't quite describe, mainly because of its unrelenting confidence. I wish I could replace every new theatrically released christian movie with this.

my mom asked me about joaquin’s name and she said “guacamole phoenix” asfshfjfkflkf

93

"Looks a little like our house doesn't it?"

Baptism by water. A uniquely traumatic drama anchored by comedy and familial disruption. As scary as it is amusing and overflowing with tears.

M. Night - from what I've seen thus far - flirts with on-screen details when dealing with supernatural narratives. The scenes where we are explicitly shown the antagonists are incredibly blunt and just as effective as when Night is foreshadowing towards the eventual climax. Gotta love it when a horror film's build-up and tension is just as strong as its pay-off.

This was a perfect third film in my weekend-ology of M. Night (Unbreakable, Glass, Signs). I noticed a pattern between the three that I touched on in my last review. M. Night is taking these genres of movies that can easily be blown up to big blockbuster action movies (Superhero, Invasion Sci-Fi) and really boiling them down to smaller, grounded movies. This one would make an interesting Double Feature with 10 Cloverfield Lane.

My anxiety from this plotline was cured by Joaquin Phoenix beating the shit out of an alien with a baseball bat

If Shamaylan was only smart enough to follow after his own footsteps he would have been great, and this movie proves that. I never truly understood why people compared his early career with the likes of Hitchcock and Speilberg, but now i see why. He balances this mundane family tale with supernatural suspense and masterful directing, which made for a pretty good film. However this movie is not better than Unbreakable and i have no idea why people say this is Shamaylans masterpiece..... the themes are heavyhanded as hell.... and that last act.... a recurring theme, it seems to me that Shamaylan has a difficult time ending his stories. Otherwise good movie

Not my aliens

IT’S NOT LIKE THEY DIDN’T WARN US.

Why would you come to earth if you are allergic to water?? Aliens you stupid!

This was supposed to be a comedy right? The dialogue in parts of this movie were actually incredibly funny, and not even in a bad way, bits were honestly really funny.

The filming was really good, and it flowed really well, but the downfall of the movie was that some of the scenes are just downright bizarre. Overall, it was a pretty enjoyable alien movie, even if it doesn't make a lot of sense if you look to close.

i lost my shit when mel grabbed joaquin by the shirt to give him a hug during the family crisis lmaoo

This didn’t scare me because with the amount of rain we get in the UK, these aliens wouldn’t even bother visiting

81

"Swing away Merrill. Merrill... swing away."

Objectively, this is probably not a four star film. It's arguably got Shyamalan's worst twist, the final moments are slightly too maudlin, and the dialogue sounds like it came from a computer.

But I fucking love this film.

It's among M. Night's most formally precise film's, acting as a perfect pastiche of vintage Spielberg. It is the funniest film in his filmography by a wide margin and features Gibson's best performance. It's also ostensibly Shyamalan wrestling with his reoccuring theme of faith and belief in the face of tragedy/world chaos. Shyamalan may never make a great film again, but at least he's out there making movies that no one else will make.