Waste of 2 hours of my life.

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 2004)

I walked into the movie theater believing I was about to see a terrifying new horror movie from M. Night Shyamalan and walked out disappointed to say the least. The commercials for this movie lead you to believe that it is an original edge of your seat thriller and this movie was hyped up to be something extraordinary, which was what attracted me to it in the first place.
To say that every part of this movie was completely bad would not be true, because I do believe that the acting in superb and Ron Howard's daughter shined very much (you get into her character very much) and the characters were well-developed. However, I feel that those strong points are heavily outweighed by the negative parts of this movie. First of all, this is not in any way, shape, or form a horror movie and for those of you who wish to go see it (although I strongly advise you not to) I will not spoil anything. What it is however, is a dramatic love story, but I found it quite comical.
M. Night Shyamalan has an eye for setting a mood that draws you into the story, but once you are there, it is utterly disappointing. The story itself makes sense to me, but the reasoning behind any of it seems completely ridiculous. I didn't find the ending predictable because a thought so unusually dumb never crossed my mind.
All in all, this movie is not what you expect it to be, but misleading and in my opinion it is by FAR Shyamalan's worst work. If I were you, I would spend my money on something different because "The Village" will disappoint you.