Saturday, February 24, 2007

Lady in the Water is a weird little movie.

Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep (Giamatti) rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.

Of all of the M. Night Shyamalan movies, I think it’s the one I like the least. However, there is a tenderness in the Paul Giamatti character that kept me interested in the story and had me teary at the end. So I don’t love it and I don’t hate it but I can’t say that I like it either. Because it was weird.

That said, knowing that the movie came from a bedtime story that Shyamalan told his daughters helps me understand the nonsense a bit better. But still...weird.

This one gets 3 stars out of 5.