I was going to entitle this post ‘The Fall of M Night Shyamalan‘, but he actually made a couple of movies before The Sixth Sense.
Yesterday my brother and I were discussing the disappointment of The Happening (to be fair, my contribution was based on what I have read, because I haven’t even seen it). Shyamalan’s most recent one, The Last Airbender is out in cinemas right now. Let’s have a little look over the IMDB score of each of his nine movies, in order of release, and remember that the first two were not much seen.
| Title | Year | IMDB score |
|---|---|---|
| Praying with Anger | 1992 | 5.3 |
| Wide Awake | 1998 | 6.2 |
| The Sixth Sense | 1999 | 8.2 |
| Unbreakable | 2000 | 7.3 |
| Signs | 2002 | 6.9 |
| The Village | 2004 | 6.6 |
| Lady in the Water | 2006 | 5.8 |
| The Happening | 2008 | 5.2 |
| The Last Airbender | 2010 | 4.5 |
Perhaps he should take to time out and try to recapture what he had with The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable.