M. Night's best since Sixth Sense...

Rating: 8/10 (21 February 2005)

Like Sixth Sense I saw the Village on DVD.
It's one of those films that I just never got around to seeing. I love Sixth Sense and then Unbreakable really appealed to me because of my love of Comic books, and also the lack of good comic book movies. Unbreakable turned that idea on it's head and came up with the movie first. However, I can appreciate that Unbreakable would not necessarily be a commercial hit.
Signs, I loved the idea of ad then it just didn't click in the same way that his other two had and once we got to The Village I was a victim of the mediocre reviews and wasn't even anticipating the DVD release. Anyway, I just watched it at the weekend and loved it. Night may be a victim of his own success in as much as people are always going to go in looking for possible twists and anticipating what will happen. Even my wife, who is not a cinephile by any means as I loaded the DVD said, 'oh, this'll have a twist won't it...'
Well, I was so taken with the characters I wasn't looking for a twist - I actually felt sorry for William Hurts character as he walks Ivy to the 'Shed that will no longer be used'... I wasn't disappointed in anyway by this film, and I can be a cynical film watcher.
I think he's back on form, and even though you may not rate this as his best, even his worst is above par in todays movie climate.