Avoid this movie.. Please!

Rating: 1/10 (2 August 2004)

*** Spoilers, if there can be such a thing with this piece of crap ***
This is the worst movie I have seen in recent memory. Jeepers Creepers manned that post in my list until last night. This movie is long, boring, predictable. There is a conversation between Ivy & one of the Elders about 15 mins into the movie, which gives away the so-called "twist" at the end. A few mins later... Lucius sees one of the "monsters". It's looks so bad & is so obviously a person in a suit that the entire movie has been given away in the 1st 25 mins... but you sit there for the next 90 hoping something else happens... Well... it doesn't... You've just been had... this is movie is worse than Taking Lives (a similar movie in that it gives away the ending 20 mins in) but at least there are some interesting things happening later on. The Village has nothing. No interesting side plots. No interesting characters other than Ivy... She does a good job, but her character doesn't have enough depth to carry a movie. She is the ONLY part of this movie worth seeing. How can you have a 2-hour so called thriller, but give away the only 2 "thrilling" points of the movie 25 mins in. M.Night had a gem in Sixth Sense. People keep wondering why he brought that out 1st, & then the rest of this crap, i.e. Signs, Unbreakable, & the Village, afterwards... the reason is simple. If we had all seen any of those movies 1st, we would never have paid to see any more... much less paying to see Sixth Sense. So instead, he brings out the best 1st. Forcing us all to go see is later films in the hope one of them will be as good as the 1st. Well... they aren't... Not even Close. We have been had by a con artist on a mass scale... He suckered us in with that 1st great one...
& has been cashing in with crap ever since... All the money Unbreakable, Signs, & The Village have made should be tacked on to the total income of Sixth Sense... Where it all belongs...