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Rating: 4/10 (7 August 2004)

This movie was extremely boring and the ending was predictable. I think it is humorous that M. Night keeps making cameos in his movies. Is he stupid? I pity the fool that tries to emulate Hitchcock so obviously. Nobody should consciously try to emulate another. They should let their own abilities speak for themselves.
One thing that Hitch didn't do was use so many zoom shots. I found them really distracting in the movie. Use cuts or else hold the shot. Zooms are for home videos.
The general concept of the movie is good but it could have been so much better. The dialog for one is terrible. There is great actors here, but they just look silly.
Hitch liked making cameos in his movies, but he didn't act in any I've ever seen. M. Night's acting is terrible and just feels thrown in.
The director of The Village definitely has talent, but he hasn't shown himself to be very versatile since The Sixth Sense. Also, I hate those promotional hoaxes he's been doing for his movies on TV.
All of his movies have been a YAWN and a "Whatever" to me.