Lady in the Water

*** - While it certainly isn’t a great film, this is easily M. Night Shyamalan’s best film of the past several he has made. Some of the characters are pretty good, and the plot isn’t entirely predictable (like “The Village” and “The Happening”), but there is enough semi-offensiveness (the pothead guys and the Chinese people, especially) and unanticipated goofiness to make this somewhat trying to watch at times. The special effects are marginal at best, too, which certainly doesn’t help matters.