The Director: Once upon time people were talking about M. Night Shymalan in the same breath as Spielberg and Hitchcock. He managed to craft thrillers with great characters, taut suspense and he created one of the best movie twists of all time with The Sixth Sense, so he looked like he would become one of the greats. The Crime: He officially landed in director's jail for After Earth, but it was a long time coming. Ever since Lady In The Water hes been behind a string of critically reviled failures like The Happening and The Last Airbender. Things even got so bad for him that his name was booed when it appeared on the trailer for Devil. After Earth was his last chance, where he took a great adventure premise and instead made a two-hour movie of Jaden Smith walking around a lot. He whines occasionally and gets attacked by bad CGI from the early nineties. The Sentence: Shymalan put a happy face on his exile; he made low-budget horror movie The Visit that earned him his best reviews in years. He also worked on the well received TV series Wayward Pines, so hes slowly earning back some credibility. It will be a long time until hes offered another blockbuster to helm though.
