good actors wasted

Rating: 4/10 (18 March 2010)

I found it hard to believe that The Village was directed by the same man who made the superb Unbreakable.I loved Unbreakable it's one of my favourite films.
The Village has a wonderful cast and a good idea to work with..the movie begins interestingly enough and is quite watchable for the first half hour or so.
After the first 30 or 40 minutes the film slows to a very pedestrian pace...the actors do their best but the film is just...uninvolving.
I found it hard to focus my attention on what was happening...although to be honest not much *was* happening.The movie was a big yawn.
The twist ending is signposted long before it comes.
Apart from the first scenes I was bored