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RELEASED 20 May 2019 | 15 | Blu-ray/DVD/download

▶ Director M Night Shyamalan

▶ Cast James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, Sarah Paulson, Anya Taylor-Joy

genre ate the world, marked an intelligent, surprisingly soulful take on comic book mythology. Its creator, M Night Shyamalan, seemed set to be the new millennium’s heir to Hitchcock and Spielberg, destined for a career of suspenseful, high-concept crowd-pleasers. Then his mojo crumbled, reducing him to a punchline, – the sequel everybody wanted – became a threat, not a promise. How could the man who made ever do justice to the film we imagined in our heads?

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