ThiefHott Too much of everything

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

reema-bh "absurd may be the tales i tell,ill-suited to the marching timesi loved the lips from which they fellso let it stand among my rhymes" this is exactly what i feel about m.night, nd the movie!!!! this movie is so perfectly nd enigmatically absurd...that the question of it being true or untrue does not interest me!...i feel judging such a piece of work with rationality and logic would be derogatory...i believe that there is nothing called the truth or a lie...these things are created by us in order to hide our inability of seeing the bigger picture!.....so for me...it was an intriguing experience..watching this movie!

bob_found Definitely one of the most entertaining TV movies I've seen for a long time.I was shocked to see in a CNN report that some gutless fool had decided to demystify the film, stating that "this marketing strategy is not consistent with our policy at NBC." The reference to fans being upset to discover that they had watched a mockumentary was also surprising to me. Would it help them if they had an announcement before any film they watched stating that they were about to see a work of fiction? No doubt this would please Heresy who makes the ridiculous statement in his review on this site that the film should not have been passed off as a documentary at all. Well that's just brainless. Some things are best kept secret. Life would be boring without secrets, don't you think?

xchar (This is a SPOILER only if you haven't read anything about the film.) Okay, so it didn't deliver what was promised (a real buried secret) and it was an hour too long. But director Nathaniel Kahn has a masterful command of the medium and the format. I didn't know beforehand whether it was factual or not, so I kept looking for "tells": little flaws that would reveal that it was scripted (for example, an actor moving their lips while another actor was speaking their lines). I never spotted such a lapse. Everyone was totally convincing--including Kahn and Shyamalan themselves. The geeky computer kid was great! Shyamalan's low-key reaction to the "invasion of privacy" was done just right. The casual introduction of key elements--crows, black cars on a country road--was handled nicely. I hope this documentary is included on the DVD--I want to watch it carefully again!

T Y My Architect was a fence-riding movie. There was worthwhile footage and some insight but there was also bad taste, self-promotion, and more than a little cheese. It was unclear if the previously unknown Nathaniel Kahn had any thing deeper in him but to self-identify (loudly) that he was related to someone famous and talented. It was hard to assess blame for the saccharine and sophomoric parts, but with this project the blame comes into crisp focus. Nathaniel Kahn was the problem. In this, his next project, Kahn with no taste to restrain himself, wastes no time in finding and enhancing his inner whore, selling his approval and switching hats from "documentarist" to "huckster" for a mediocre would-be-spooky backstory about M. Night Shymalan; as a tie-in to pre-sell that directors next mediocre genre-piece. Instead of being Hollywoods next brilliant P.R. move, this is a thoroughly icky, "run-to-the-shower-to-wash-the-stink-off" piece of self-degradation.Kahn had no other story to tell before immediately selling himself out as a shill to promote "The Village." Shymalan himself is to say the least full of... himself, and for Kahn to line up behind him to produce this piece of faux-lore is the most embarrassing piece of a**kissing since Waylon Smithers took that job under Monty Burns.In my eyes, the stink from this trash, irreversibly damages both Kahn and the earlier effort.