Please, someone stop this man!

Once upon a time there was a good movie. It was called The Sixth Sense and it was written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It was so good and so popular that its creator was hailed as a brilliant new filmmaker and naturally Hollywood was eager to shower him with money and have him create more blockbuster films. And that's then the problem began. Because Mr. Shyamalan did create more films and they were all bad, though he did have some loyal fans, god knows why. The Sixth Sense was followed by the boring Unbreakable, the tedious Signs, and the expanded Twilight Zone steal The Village. Now somebody should have stoppped production, admitted that it was all a mistake and spared moviegoers their foolish optimism and wasted money in expecting another great film. But this egocentric director kept on going, even to the point of making cameo appearances in his own mediocre films. Soon it went from bad to worse when he wrote and directed the nearly unwatchable Lady in the Water and the pretentious The Last Airbender. He also contributed to the laughable elevator movie Devil. With each release, one wondered when are they going to stop this man?  Now we may have our answer since his latest film After Earth has been acclaimed as one of the worst movies ever made. It seems that Will Smith made the huge mistake of agreeing to star in this turkey and the added mistake— in an act of shameless nepostism—of handing the second lead over to his son Jaden.  It's been a critical disaster since nobody other than the egocentric Shyamalan seems happy with the film. Well, that's not completely true. I would guess that John Travolta is thrilled since this turkey may make people forget, for awhile, the previously most-scorned film, Battlefield Earth. One can only hope that this is the swan song for M. Night Shyamalan.