I just got finished watching M. Night Shyamalan’s latest movie,”Lady In The Water”. Critics hated it when it came out, but most of their criticisms seem more like personal attacks on the director himself rather than sticking to the subject of the movie in question.

The movie had its genesis in a bedtime story that Night made up for his kids. It is a pretty good little fairy tale that he has concocted here. I hope his dream that the children’s book he wrote of this tale takes off like he wished it would in the making of section of the DVD.

The fairy tale has a very unlikely hero in Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti), the super of the building in which all the characters of the film are living. He finds a girl swimming in the apartment building’s swimming pool. He learns that she is actually a creature out of legend sent to inspire a writer whose book will cause a young boy who to become a future leader who will change the world for the better. He helps her figure out who the writer is, but the problems start when she has to get ready to return home.

Another creature who has been sent to stop her is getting ready to attack her when Cleveland gathers people to protect her. He tries to heal her after the other creature attacks and get her home. In The process, healing himself of the pain of a wound on the inside that he had been carrying around for a long time.

A cool little movie to check out sometime when you want something a little deeper than your usual generic action movie and crappy PG-13 remakes of great R-rated horror movies…..