Good Lord!

Rating: 1/10 (23 September 2006)

I must admit that I kinda waited and wanted to see this film. The concept and settings sounded scary and I thought that there would be great potential. Luckily enough, I never saw this pile of crap in the cinemas and instead saw it on TV a long while later. I would have been utterly furious if I ever saw this trash in a real cinema as it would have wasted an entire evening.
First of all, the really terribly titled "Those we don't speak" of - I really want to slap the genius who came up with that terrible voldemort-ripoff lame name, don't even exist. Its just a costume that the villagers wear to scare their own from escaping the village. Oops. Did I give away the MNS twist? No, there must be another right? The creatures must really exist and they show up in the end right? NO. The entire twist was what was already described. The movie thus ends halfway through and the rest of it is an absolute waste of time.
This in no way, qualifies as a horror flick. Firstly, how can creatures that at best, remove the fur from small, dead animals, be considered such a huge threat? Even with one not realising that the creatures are a farce, their supposed crimes are almost always trivial and get over-reactions from the dumbass villagers. You'd think that all these bare faced flaws would be made up by the great twist at the end, but no such twist exists. The crap mentioned before doesn't qualify as the twist.
If thats not enough, Shyamalan has the balls to throw the most annoying and irritating cast of characters ever seen in cinema history, at the audience. Joaquin Phoenix is great as always but the rest act plain weird and their acting skills are'nt good enough to make it look like realistic weirdness. Ivy should go down in cinema history as the most annoying, 1-dimensional character ever conceived. You'd think that she'd get eaten by the monsters but they don't exist, remember?
There was only one memorable scene in this movie which has sadistic comic value. The two sequence of scenes where Joaquin Phoenix's character gets proposed to by Ivy's sister were hilarious. If there were more such scenes, actually utilizing the weirdness of the annoying characters, perhaps the movie may have even been watchable. All in all, this movie is a shallow character study of retards and should be avoided.