Awful. Don't see it. (Possible spoilers.)

Rating: 1/10 (31 July 2004)

Though M. Night Shyamalan's unable to make a visually uninteresting film and though a cast of this magnitude is equally unable to deliver wholly bad performances, "The Village" is an awful, awful experience.

It's got a one-note, unbelievable premise that would barely hold up a half-hour episode of "The Twilight Zone." (Actually, episodes of "The Twilight Zone were far more clever than this movie.) It's got a horrid script featuring no lines spoken with prepositions, plot twists that could be guessed from a million miles away.
To top it all off, the movie's not even scary. Not at all. The ad campaign, which makes this look like it's a HORROR movie about MONSTERS, is completely misleading.
A better movie could be made of this premise if the movie didn't insist on keeping the whole premise a secret. A better movie could be made of this premise if it didn't insist on being so dark, bleak and falsely suspenseful.

The way it's written, the actors are given little to do. The characters have little life, no charisma with one another and feature no one among them who is individual enough to care about.
Don't see "The Village." There is little worth watching in it.