It was slow and painful yet intriguing if you have not seen any trailers prior to the movie. Smash ending if you pay attention!

Rating: 8/10 (2 September 2004)

I just got back from the movie and I thought it was very very original and a break from the same material out there these days. True that the movie could have been better (thats an opinion everyone has on allot of movies) in some areas but over all if you pay attention instead of yapping with your friends about this and that through out the film, try to predict the next step and you would have enjoyed being right if you got it!
I agree that the actors were too good to had performed in the caliber that they had however that is what the script and the director/writer demands they perform.
***** SPOILERS AHEAD *****
I have read what loads of other users have wrote and can't help but say this.... I feel that many of them have missed mentioning the great things at the end that redeem the whole boring/slow portions of the film.
First of all, the group of elders in the film were nothing more than a bunch of ordinary people (MAYBE) wealthy enough and have been hurt by the crime found in the modern world they lived in. They had bought the reserve space they chose to create a new life and world for themselves and their children and they managed to find each other to pull this sort of idea when they met each other at a group therapy sessions & thats how it all started.
The Creatures they created and the whole fiascal they designed was just the simplest they could bring up way from keeping the children and the younger generations from crossing beyond the VILLAGE to discover the outside world....
The reserve security personel were owned by WALKER FOR GODS SAKE! Has no one noticed that? Why am I reading other people's remarks that have not put any effort into analyzing the movie any deeper than their skin?
All in all a very good movie and I would rate it 8/10. Good stuff and much better than Signs!
Shawzil