Less interesting than watching mold grow

Rating: 2/10 (11 September 2006)

I cant believed I wasted any of my life watching this film. It was awful. The director's love of 'clever twists' in his films make this as predictable as an episode of Scooby Doo. It must be said that The Village is awful in a special way. A film like Showgirls or Sidekicks is so bad that it's funny, but this was so bad it was just very depressing. Phoenix isn't a bad actor but this must rank as one of his worst films (yes, that includes Signs!). At the end of this film I was left feeling that nothing had happened. And come on, who doesn't find the thought of a blind girl navigating the forests alone utterly stupid? She would have starved and died in that hole not climbed out. Also, how could the monster being a disabled kid in fancy dress not be construed as anything less than hilarious? M Night Shyamalan films: They're not big and not clever.