Lady In the Water: Basic summary - A bedtime story by M. Night Shyamalan. Paul Giamatti stars as Cleveland, a superintendent at an apartment complex. One night he hears someone swimming in the pool after “pool hours”, but this someone is not human. After coming into contact and housing this mythical being -“a narf”, he begins to believe her myth about where she is from and why she is here. From there Cleveland talks to an elder Asian lady in the complex who knows of the story to hear more of this myth’s lore. What would a M. Night Shyamalan movie be without a suppose-to-be-scary-but-really-isn’t monster of some sort? The monster lurks in the grass around the complex waiting to strike the Narf….not very scary at all. Something different with this M. Night movie….no plot twist/surprise ending – it is a pretty straight forward story. The plot is told to the viewers by the characters during the movie and then we see it play out, with a couple bumps in the road of course. Saving the movie is the emotional scene near the end that sort of comes out on nowhere, but gives the story some much needed meaning. The Characters in the apartment complex were also well thought out and interesting. In the end I can’t really recommend as I felt the movie was flat, original yes, but lacking that spark that made M. Night Shyamalan a house hold name.
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If this movie had parents they would be: Splash & The Never ending Story
With a running time of 110 minutes
This film is rated PG-13
