A tale of fail and a "Village"-idiot

Rating: 1/10 (22 February 2013)

I have to admit, the first time I watched The Village", I quiet liked it. For some reason it reminded me of Tim Burtons "Big Fish", had this fairy-tale-ish quality that's very rare among Hollywood movies; I thought that Adrien Brody did a good job.
I have to admit, the first time I watched "The Village" I had a little too much wine that evening.
Then I watched it a second time – sober – thinking to myself, "What the hell am I watching here? And why am I watching this?" A storyline that is so hackneyed, you might suspect that it has been written by a 3rd grader and a finishing twist that seems to have been pulled out of an orifice that IMDb won't allow me to name here. No, I'm not going to count up the plot-holes – look, there's already more than 1,000 reviews on this page, most of them talking about the plot-holes and inconsistencies (the handful of positive reviews are probably written by Manoj Nelliyattu himself or people suffering from delusions).
Generally we have a cast of able actors but, as is the case in almost all film productions, the director is the boss and if the director tells the actor, "act weird" or "recite these lines, whether they make sense or not", well, the actor hasn't got much of a choice. So don't blame those poor sods; the blatant nonsense you'll be watching has grown on the manure pile of director Shyamalan.
See, Shyamalan used to be an able director – not brilliant but good, who knew how to make an average-to-good film. Unfortunately, at one point in time the young director begun to believe in his own hype and began directing film despite better knowledge and common sense. Megalomania is actually a real psychological disorder that's clinically treatable – but throwing a million dollar budget at somebody afflicted and confirming his mania, that's called enabling, and that is what Hollywood's soulless executives are essentially guilty of. "The Village" was just the beginning and the final result (until this point in time) can be seen in "The Last Airbender".
You, dear reader, may have come under the impression that I harbor a certain animosity toward the director. I assure you, that is not the case. I wish M. Night Shyamala nothing but the best, that he may one day recover and find his spot in the industry where he belongs and where his work will be appreciated – in Bollywood cinema.
Years later I would watch a spoof-scene in one of the "Scary Movies" films – pretty much summons up that train-wreck of a movie that is "The Village".
I have to give a mandatory one point, so I try to console myself by saying that I give it to Brody, who has to play "The Village" idiot – out of pity.