Everything but the architecture in this movie was horrid. The ****ing dialog, the exposition, the narration, the lack of character, the ****** acting, the pacing. It looked like they took exactly one take of every scene and decided to just go with that.
Good GOD, who edited that film? A 5-year-old? Nothing transitioned - this is something I could show in a class as an example of painfully poor editing. (it's where you cut all the different footage together, it involves a keen sense of timing and emotional/dramatic awareness - it's a very important job. Clearly it was given to the first bum they picked up off the street. What was the last thing they worked on? Power Rangers the Movie?) I have seen better editing from middle school film projects. It looks as though the cast (flabby, pink-faced chicken-leg-white people) and crew came from Texas and therefore didn't know how to act or put together a film worthy of a summer blockbuster title.

How much money went into this project? Yet with all that financial support and hours, literally hours, of source material (story, to fight scenes, dialogue), the special effects department and choreographers couldn't even get the bending looking not ridiculous - honestly, how hard is it to synchronize the movement of a clump of earth or blob of water with the movements of a person's limbs? It's not like animating lipsync or even a f*cking floursack. There is no excuse for this. You (animators and animation directors) had reference. Your failure is either the result of laziness or incompetence. I'll be kind and assume it was the former. The majority of the time the actors look as though they are just flailing their arms about. Did Shyamalan not catch this? Was he out of time? Did he just not care?

I know Mr. Shyamalan has been going through a low peak in his career - but this is by far the worst film he has ever made. This film looks like it was put together by amateurs who neither understood nor appreciated the source material, and didn't really care about their jobs.