Shaymalan meet Gibson?

The National Review of all places has a thought provoking essay on what would happen if M. Night Shaymalan were to collaborate with Mel Gibson. It treats the work of both respectfully while pointing out their weaknesses. A lot of the negative hype about Apocalypto was just that, hype, and Gibson realized long ago that hype is hype. Here, Thomas Hibbs does a bit better than that.