‘Lady in the Water’ drowns beneath its conceit
“We don’t get it.”
That’s what Disney executives told M. Night Shyamalan when he submitted his script for “Lady in the Water” last year. They did offer to give him $60 million to make the movie, based on his rather astounding box-office track record, but he was so offended by their vote of no confidence that he took the project to Warner Bros.
Now they’re stuck with it. Despite some genuinely humorous and frightening moments, Christopher Doyle’s imaginative cinematography and the sharp, committed performances of Paul...
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