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‘The Watchers’ Review: Ishana Night Shyamalan Directs a Glossy Woodland Horror Thriller. The Twist? The Film Is More Promising Than Good
Dakota Fanning stars in Ishana Night Shyamalan's glossy woodland horror thriller. The twist? The film is more promising than good.
Its title refers to a race of spindly ash-gray monsters who haunt an Irish woods, gathering at night around a concrete fortress where the film’s four characters have holed up in a state of semi-permanent refuge. Mina ( Dakota Fanning), an enigmatic lass who works in a pet store in Galway, is asked to deliver a talking orange parakeet to a client in Belfast. We don’t have any great investment in the characters, and by the time we discover the bunker hidden under the fortress, where a professor (John Lynch) first went to study the Watchers, the film has begun to grow top-heavy with its mythology.
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