Brilliant...

Rating: 10/10 (26 September 2004)

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What can say about The Village... let's start with the story. The story was anything you would hope to find in a thriller. From start to finish you are kept at your toes thinking about these creatures. What are they and what can they do. Talking about a truce makes it more intriguing because it gives these "creatures" a shape of thought and reasoning. I myself was wondering if these creatures were deformed men or were some sort of "Morlocks" like in The Time Machine.
Then the story turns when Edward Walker (William Hurt) confesses to his daughter that there are no creatures and that it was all the work of the elders. Again there is a hole left in the story were he tells her that he's based his creature story on rumors about these woods. These rumors were proved by the appearance of the creature in the woods that attacked Ivy. Then after that we were introduced to the truth after a thrilling confusion of whether there are creatures or not!!
Slow paced story that keeps you on your guard through out. That's the beauty of a thriller movie. Job will done Shyamalan.
The cast was brilliant. Bryce Dallas Howard was very good so was Joaquin Phoenix and Adrien Brody. William Hurt and Sigourney Weaver portrayed there characters perfectly.
The direction was as good as the story. I think we are looking at the new Hitchcock.
10/10