Quite possible the worst Shyamalan film yet

Rating: 1/10 (22 August 2004)

When I saw The Sixth Sense I was awestruck by the very clever twist ending. Unfortunately when it comes to scripts following The Sixth Sense, M Night Shyamalan keeps beating the same old horse, although with a new coat of paint.
After seeing Unbreakable and Signs quite recently I had very low expectations when seeing The Village. Despite this the movie didn't live up to them.
The story was very weak and the tempo was more or less non-existent with boring and flat characters. Quite often I found myself wishing that the actors would just stop talking so that the movie could move on.
Despite William Hurt and Joaquin Phoenix doing a good job they couldn't lift Shyamalans at times quite pretentious and wooden script to any heights worth mentioning. If anyone but Shyamalan had delivered this script to a studio it would have been refused at once.
The twist end, which of course is present, was anything but exciting and neither me nor my friend found it very "twisting" to begin with as you can see it coming. And unlike The Sixth Sense there is a lot of holes in this movie that you notice right away.
No, Shyamalan needs to get back on track, this movie did nothing to improve his rating in my book. Quite the contrary.