This movie was . . Absolute . I hadn't watched any of the original series before seeing it and I still thought it was . Bad acting, bad writing, bad directing, bad editing. Everything was bad. If you go into it as a fan of the series, it's worse, because apparently you have to deal with a lot of glaring inaccuracies and omissions. For me, just as a fan of movies, it was painful and I almost walked out. The only thing keeping me in was that I was with a group and didn't want to be rude but they told me afterwards that they all felt the same. It was a terrible, awful movie and I hope Shamalan's career dies because this was just bad bad bad bad bad.