Boring conversations in various apartments. No sense of wonder or magic, throughout.The only thing that keeps this from being M. Night Shyamalan's worst movie is that he has made several movies that are absolute stinking piles. As we follow his career, this is the start of a real downward dive. It is the first inklings of the movie crisis that is to come with "The Happening," "Last Airbender," and "After Earth."

I have read countless reviews of this movie and it makes me so happy that M has gotten the best of so many people with this movie. The simplicity is the genius behind it. The story and the characters are so much more complex than what you can gather from watching it. It requires one thing to watch a movie and understand what's happening and that's a willing suspension of disbelief. This movie requires two - WSD and Willingness to Understand something you can't actually see because you are distracted by the movie itself looking and seeming dull and uninvolved.THE COVE - is the place where damaged and strange outcasts all wind up (a cove by definition is a small SHELTERED bay) Mr. HEEP - (heap - a messy pile or great amount of stress put upon someone) Harry Farber - Cleveland's emptiness & loneliness unimpressed and uninvolved Story - Cleveland's fragile faith in god or love or life needing to be savedThese are just a FRACTION of the subtle genius in this film.Spend some time considering that this movie is probably one of the most well- developed and thoughtful ideas every put on screen. The only issue is that M's vision was so advanced not everyone can see it.

I saw this in the theater when it first came out, after seeing all of M Nights others movies I was sorely disappointed. It wasn't until after talking with a few friends and buying the DVD that I really got an appreciation of what the director was trying to do. I found myself in a dark room and let all other thoughts leave my mind. That's when I started getting engulfed in the story and really connecting with the characters. I felt all sorts of emotions during the movie and even learned some things about it that I had missing previously. I know a lot of people hate on this movie, and I was one of them. After seeing it again I was completely taken by the story and had a new feeling for the movie.

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.