It putters, then stutters, and then dies.

Rating: 3/10 (2 August 2004)

Congrats "The Village", you have replaced "The Chronicles of Riddick" as the lowpoint so far of the 2004 movies I have seen. The sad part is I sort of liked that one, this one, however, I did not enjoy much at all. In fact, I have now finally seen a movie that was worse than last years "28 Days Later", in fact after seeing this one I feel bad about being as hard on that movie as I was. I give this movie a three only because at least it has good performances...still those performances cannot make up for the fact the plot was awful, it was dreadfully boring, and the ending was very predictable...I think I got it five minutes in when I saw their community resembled an amish village, and I was 100% sure once the origin of the creatures is revealed. The movie is totally devoid of humor, it takes itself seriously to a fault, and quite frankly it would not scare a child of three or four years old. The only reason it is so highly ranked here at imdb is that M. Night directed it so people feel they have to like it, but he isn't a god and so I say this movie is just a mistake by him. Why he can not make a movie without the twist ending is beyond me. Next time he should just make a straight horror movie with no twists at the end and that would probably surprise people more than this one did. I mean if you did not see this one coming you probably have problems concentrating, but then who could blame you? This movie is very tedious and if you can manage to keep awake through the whole thing you will say "so that is it?" You would have been better off sleeping. There are also more holes left unfilled than can be found in a piece of swiss cheese. It also irked me that Phoenix is basically not even in the second half of this film. All in all a grave disappointment, a movie that looks like a made for television movie presented by the Lifetime channel. If this scares you seek medical help.