You either get it, or you don't!

Rating: 1/10 (21 August 2006)

Firstly, as this is a negative review of a film I doubt it will help many people like I hope other reviews do, but I just thought I should comment on this as it did have an effect on me, even if it was negative! Unfortunately, i'm still stuck for good comments about this film! I've watched 'The Village' three times to give it a chance, but this effort by Shyamalan is such a disappointment compared to its predecessors! I love 'Sixth Sense', 'Unbreakable' and 'Signs', and am really looking forward to seeing 'The Lady In The Water'! The first three are fantastic films that I can watch over and over again, always feeling the same emotions as the first time I saw them! Yet 'The Village' was so unbelievably boring that i couldn't believe that it had been written and directed by the same man! Honestly, the only thing i can say about this film is that after about 1hr 45mins into the film i suddenly realised that pretty much nothing had happened and therefore the only reason i continued to watch was the sheer belief that surely something good had to happen soon! I even told my friends that they had to see it just to see exactly what i was telling them! Towards the end it picked up very slightly where the blind girl was running through the forest and it had his usual clever twist which did work, however when it finally finished i was in such a state of confusion and disappointment that i couldn't stop laughing! It was just strangely terrible- a million miles away from the quality film i was expecting to see! I'm happy to say that this was just his film that didn't work for me as the others definitely do! Stick with them in my opinion!