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Shyamalan's next supernatural fairy tale tails off before it's do

Advantages: Great start, two leads
Disadvantages: Second half just disappoints

...Sense. I would place Lady In The Water somewhere in the middle. If anything, it edges closer to The Village, but only because Bryce Dallas Howard is once again a powerful character in the film. She plays Story, the Lady of the title, while the water in the title is that of an appartment block swimming pool. Paul Giamatti plays Cleveland, the super of the building who is saved by Story one night after he bumps his head on the side of the pool. As ...
...huge twist at the end. Lady In The Water does have a couple of surprises up its sleeve, but nothing major that would shock as in some of his other films. The DVD is currently available to buy from amazon.co.uk for a reasonably low price at the moment, but it's not the sort of film I would bother getting on DVD. It passes the time and has flashes of brilliance, but the disappointing later parts of the film kind of spoil it in a way. ...

pmcds 10.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Lady In The Water (DVD)

Lady in The Water

Advantages: A different story to the norm
Disadvantages: Starts to drag about midway through the movie

When this film was first advertised I really looked foward to it as M Night Shylaman has had some really good movies Signs being one of my favorites and this looked to be going back on track after the disappointment with The Village. The film centres around the caretaker Cleveland Heep played by Paul Giamatti of an ordinary apartment block who just goes about his daily business until one day he finds a girl called Story in the water played by Bryce ...
...has to return to her world once her mission is accomplished and this is being hampered by otherwordly wolves that have been sent to destroy her. A group of the residents,rallied together by Cleveland, then have to work out how to get Story back to her own world and in the process they realise that they aren't all just living in the same apartment block by chance but have special quailites that were meant for just this time. Although the film starts ...

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Review of Lady In The Water (HD-DVD)

Meet the lady in the water

Advantages: A good interesting story
Disadvantages: A lot of underused characters

After finding a mysterious young woman lurking in the pool at the apartment block that he caretakes, lonely apartment block manager Cleveland Heep rescues her from drowning. Unbeknown to him, she is an otherworldy being called Story who exists within the confounds of a famous bedtime story. Her motives are revealed in the form of a message for humanity. Surrounded by people who act as some kind of canvas for the story, Cleveland discovers that each ...
...key to unlocking the secrets and assisting her safely home. And as danger looms over the habitants of the apartment complex and the wide-eyed Story, everybody congregates to protect her from an evil beast that lurks in the grass and can be seen only in mans reflection. Director and writer M Night Shyamalan has become reknowned for his fantastical story's of other worldly existences. The ultimate pay off in his films are their tremedously believable ...

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Review of Lady In The Water (Sell Through) (DVD) (DVD)

You Look Like a Radioactive Tampon

Advantages: Great Direction and Acting
Disadvantages: Too Slow for some

Moon reminds me a lot of those big weighty Sci-fi films of the seventies where it was all about atmosphere, storyline and your imagination rather than riotous special effects and wise cracking aliens. This film is utterly beguiling, its tense but strangely relaxing, all of these is down to two men, the director Duncan Jones and the star Sam Rockwell. This is Jones' first feature film and its an incredibly impressive debut, he eschewed using his father ...
...it is a really fantastic film which is a credit to him. Starring Sam Rockwell as Sam, the only worker on an automated lunar mining complex. He has been working on his own for nearly three years and nearing the end of his term in space he feels lonely, isolated and confused....as anyone would, I imagine. With only a droid, Gerty (Voiced by Kevin Spacey) for company, Sam is alone and starts to feel a world apart from Earth, he feels he is alone but ...

paulie1975 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moon (DVD)

Sometimes, Ignorance is bliss

Advantages: clever thriller, good story, well acted
Disadvantages: bit depressing?

Dont misunderstand my review title, this is a cracking film. You can nearly always say that about Nicolas Cage films, but this one really is! The premise is simple. There are many disasters happening on earth, for some reason, aliens decide to warn mankind about the upcoming disasters by "whispering" them to a little girl in the 1950's. Unfortuneately, that girl does nothing with the information other than write it down on a bit of paper and allow ...
...capsule. The capsule is dug up in the current day and discovered by Nicolas Cage's character. He soon discovers the code in the series of numbers written on the page and works out that the code tells of impending disasters, when they will happen, how many will die and the location. The story continues on along this path, with a worrying fortelling of the end of days. We don't know what will happen right until the end. I wont ruin it for you either, ...

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Review of Knowing (Blu-ray)