Watch it without the miss-marketed hype of "the twist"

Rating: 9/10 (17 July 2013)

M. Night Shyamalan had a string of really interesting and not quite mainstream movies. Although wildly popular, The 6th Sense and Signs were not your typical summer blockbusters. Ask your friend what "Signs" was about and they will probably answer, "aliens" when in fact the movie was about faith.
The director has since drifted away from his forte of story-telling with a supernatural-element and delivered big budget bombs as of late.
The Village is not a big budget bomb but rather a well-crafted film about the attempt to control human nature by eliminating the worlds evil influences. You care about the characters (especially Ivy) almost immediately and the score by James Newton Howard fits the mood of the film perfectly.