SHYAMALAN SCORES AGAIN!

Rating: 10/10 (3 August 2004)

I went to see THE BOURNE SUPREMACY and got a major headache from trying to make sense of the "dizzy-cam" filming, which seems to be the vogue now,of the action sequences. Likewise, I ROBOT, with the automatons - on-crack bouncing off the walls while Will "Too Cool For This World" Smith single-handedly beats the nuts and bolts out of them. Appearantly he has super-peripheral vison as well because he can keep track of all 50 of them coming at him at once. I digress. THE VILLAGE, like M. Night Shyamalan's other films, returns to a kinder, gentler time of filmmaking when the viewer could actually be drawn into a story at a normal pace, with character development, beautiful and lush orchestration and a gripping drama that picks up the pace as it goes along. About the first 2 movies I mentioned - I liked them, but found them forgettable 20 minutes after I left the theatre. About THE VILLAGE - it's the kind of movie experience that only comes along once in a blue moon, or at least when Mr. Shyamalan puts a film out. I give it a 10+++