Not M. Night's best...*Spoilers*

Rating: Null/10 (7 August 2004)

I went into this movie thinking that I was going to be impressed by M. Night's directing and writing skills. I left slightly disappointed. It went off to a good start until it was revealed that all the so-called creatures were fabricated to shelter the village people from the town beyond the woods. It went even more down in creativity when we discover that they are actually living in present day when Ivy (Bryce Dallas Howard) enters the town. And the fact that the star of the film (Joaquin Phoenix) was hardly even in it. The movie was about 2 hours long and he was only in about an hour of it...the rest he was lying in a bed unconscious trying to fight for his life from various stab wounds given to him by a jealous and mentally challenged Noah (Adrien Brody) for taking his girl. It was not a horrible movie, but I think M. Night just got sloppy with this one and could have done a lot better.