Hey, I liked it!

Rating: Null/10 (12 September 2004)

This was maybe because I have only previously seen 'The Sixth Sense' as another horse out of the same stable, and so I couldn't be crushed by following the supposed downward spiral of the writer director's filmography. Or maybe because I wasn't expecting too much from a film. But, bar the occasional dodgy line to mask a plot hole (about the floor boards in the Quiet Room), I enjoyed 'The Village'. It actually made me jump, the explanation was backed up sufficiently well (I believed the back-filling - in an eccentric storybook style, anyway), and the second revelation was quite spooky (the first was a little pathetic for anyone not living a Brothers Grimm tale). Even the touch of sending the blind girl out was well done. As long as you don't expect movies to deliver the meaning of the universe, and just enjoy them as entertainment - and as long as you close your eyes and ears to the reviews of those who know the twist - this is a great film.