The Watchers (2024) (Film Review)

The Watchers (2024) As soon as the film started, I thought it was going to be worthy of the worst Shyamalan films. So I was surprised to discover that his daughter Ishana Night Shyamalan had actually directed the film!

So now we want to follow in daddy’s footsteps? Who, by the way, produced the film. She could at least have taken inspiration from The Sixth Sense and tried to make a good film instead of making something as bad as Knock at the Cabin, The Happening, Split or a sub-The Village. You could also compare this film to Jordan Peele’s worst turnips.

Dakota Fanning is still a pretty great actress, fortunately. But that’s about it! I hope she doesn’t sign up for more films with this director, otherwise her future will be as compromised as Emma Stone’s with Yorgos Lanthimos, that Greek director I find completely insulting to the 7th Art.

I watched the first scene of the film at high speed. It already seemed boring to me and its unrealism immediately bored me, totally pissed me off .

Which just goes to show… just because you’ve been brought up on horror films and seen loads of them doesn’t necessarily mean you know how to make them. You still have to see the good ones!

In this film, there’s always a TV on. And the only programme on is a Reality Show. Which makes the film even more insipid and unbearable.

No, really: illogical, irrational, full of inconsistencies, ridiculous, pathetic… the list goes on. Once again, it was extremely difficult to get to the end. The suspense remains just in the fact that you wonder whether the film will ever end or not.

We’ve all seen much better horror, fantasy and thrillers. And if you haven’t, you still don’t know what you’re missing!At least the father started with a masterpiece. The daughter starts straight away with a really bad, failed and useless piece of rubbish. Sad to say, I really don’t think she’s going to improve after that. When you make your first film, you give as good as you get so you can eat. Unless you’re already swimming in daddy’s riches.

My Rating