Lady in the Water, a story from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan, revolves around a modest building manager named Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti) who rescues a mysterious young woman (Bryce Dallas Howard) from danger and discovers she is actually a narf, a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the treacherous journey from our world back to hers. Cleveland and his fellow tenants start to realize that they are also characters in this bedtime story. As Cleveland falls deeper and deeper in love with the woman, he works together with the tenants to protect his new fragile friend from the deadly creatures that reside in this fable and are determined to prevent her from returning home.
I know that people tend to run really hot or cold when it comes to liking Shyamalalanalalalanan's movies but I happened to really like this one. The ironic thing was that this one was his first movie that didn't have one of those crazy twist endings. I think that a lot of the blah reactions to this movie were because people were waiting for that to happen. Regardless, this movie is a nicely told fairy tale/fable and I liked it a lot.
I would recommend paying the rental fee for this one. Just be warned that there isn't his traditional twist ending so don't miss out on enjoying the movie by looking for it. Trust me - it's not going to happen.
