The Village review

Rating: Null/10 (9 May 2020)

The leisurely pace of M. Night Shyamalan's fourth film gives little indication of the clumsy twist to come, and the fact that he was by now known as a filmmaker given to twist endings makes it too easy to figure out what is going to happen long before the big reveal eventually arrives. The cast does well - although both Sigourney Weaver and Joaquin Phoenix are under-used - but Shyamalan has to manipulate too many aspects of the village's reality in order to make his twist work.