Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

I can honestly say that I've never seen a movie like this.And I mean that in a good way. Shyamalan has never made a movie that was really like any other movie. Because of this he gets a lot of flack from the critics and the people as a whole.It's a shame, he started making movies when Hollywood stopped making movies. He's not afraid to make something new, to add a twist that is unique, to not make a re-make and because of that...people hate him."Adorable" I think would be the word for Lady in the Water. I felt like a little kid when I was watching it. Like a bed time story for adults.At first it seems sort of strange, the characters, the weird people you would meet in a apartment complex that only Hollywood could create...but it quickly spirals into a deeper story, one that is certainly for adults but still maintains a beautiful innocence.You soon find out that the auxiliary characters are anything but....and in a middle finger to the critics, Shyamalan places himself in a role that is sure to grab their ire.As I've said many times before, I value new, I value original and Lady in the Water is nothing I have ever seen before, a brilliant example of why I love Mr. Shyamalan's work.

M. Night Shyamalan, the director of this film, started his career off on a high note with The Sixth Sense, which was his first film that anyone can remember. It was clever and everyone loved it. Unfortunately, his follow-up films kept getting progressively worse and worse, although none seemed truly terrible until his career took a real nosedive with Lady in the Water.There are a few of movies I've seen that start with the characters in the film watching a different film or TV program. The action opens on the fictional film-within-a-film, and the audience is momentarily tricked into believing that it's the film they came to watch, as in Blow Out and Sullivan's Travels. It's usually pretty easy to spot, because the film-within-a-film often feels fake. Just as films rarely feel quite like real life, the film-within-a-film rarely feels quite like a real film. In the case of Lady in the Water, I kept waiting for the moment when we realized that we were just watching a fake film that the characters in the real movie were watching. That moment never came. The whole film just felt so strange that I couldn't believe it would be made, marketed, and released as a real movie. I felt betrayed by the director and the theater for taking my money and wasting my time.Lady in the Water is based on a bedtime story that Shyamalan wrote for his kids. He should not have made it into a film, but I guess he thought it would be a good idea, so he did. Even after the strange beginning, the movie just keeps getting weirder and weirder, and it's never particularly enjoyable. However, it's never quite as boring as it could be, as the strangeness has its own appeal in a way. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing and found myself wondering what nonsense they would throw at us next. How would they outdo themselves in the next scene?Still, it's only appealing—for lack of a better term—for so long, after which it just becomes tiring and nauseating. At one point in the film I decided that my time would be better spent doing something else, so I decided to close my eyes and take a nap. Sleep is very important, you see. I woke up during a scene in which the lead characters decipher secret codes that are hidden in the text and images on the backs of cereal boxes. I thought I was dreaming. I really thought that I must have surely been asleep and dreaming, but I was not. I'd slept through the gradual increase in weirdness and had taken too big of leap all at once. And my brain couldn't handle what my eyes were seeing, so it told me I was dreaming.Lady in the Water is not the worst movie I've ever seen, but it's certainly one of the worst. Still, I have to respect the director's decision to make the film he wanted to make despite how different and strange it was. It's just too bad that it turned out so terrible.

"Lady in the water" is a poorly made, out of control bullshit. It feels like shyamalan just gave up on the film. especially the assault on movie critic character was emmerich-Godzilla level childish. but... this is still a shyamalan movie, and some of what we loved about him are still there. like fantastic elements lurking around dirty grounded apartment corner. heartwarming drama and good performances. of course you can't forget James newton howard's terrific score. I do love its touching moments. fairy tale like tone. admiration towards togetherness. it's always good to see a movie that doesn't feel like factory-manufactured products. even if it's shitty.

This fantasy film talks about the appearance of a sea nymph in the pool of an apartment complex where Cleveland is caretaker. The nymph, Story, will then change the lives of all residents, need to help them to fulfill her mission and return to her world. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan (who also is one of the leading roles), has Bryce Dallas Howard as the protagonist. M. Night Shyamalan has accustomed us to stories with a touch of fantasy and imagination. Its as if this remarkable filmmaker refused to grow and would like to make his films with the imagination of a child playing with a camera. And, in this movie, its pretty much what happens, having himself gone head to the front of them and "playing" with the story that he's creating (as he also wrote the script). But don't think that this movie is bad. It's a good movie has touching scenes and reaches the audience for our children's side, the child that we all have within us. We would like that the plot was real and could be a creature so kind and innocent as that nymph. We would like to see people collaborate as in the movie on several occasions. And that makes us enjoy the film.