What an excellent movie..........If i was blind, deaf and dumb

Rating: 1/10 (5 May 2005)

M Night Shamalayan or however you spell it is supposedly this God of a director according to most movie reviews i have read on the net. Well, i went to see The Village when it first came out based on this statement and i can't begin to put in words how bored i was! At one stage of the movie my friends and i bet on who could throw a Kool Mint at the guy making out with his girlfriend in the row below us. I would've walked out of the movie if it wasn't for the fact that i was having to much fun laughing with disbelief at how bad the movie was. The first 20 minutes of the movie i will admit was quite excellent. It looked very promising indeed and i was actually relatively interested on what was going to unfold. M Night Shama-whatever his name is, did an excellent job building up the interest and suspense over the first 20 minutes so the audience was intrigued. Then for some strange reason, he decides to destroy the whole basis of the movie and went against every single marketing ploy The Village received. Disappointed is not the word; rather, when the town elder tells his daughter (who is forced to travel through the village to get medical supplies) that the whole pretense of beasts in the village is in fact phony and made up i think my first reaction was laughter at the fact that the director and whoever wrote the play destroyed the basis of their story.
From this point on, whatever events unfold in the story are really just a joke and the audience has already lost its interest. Really, it is apparent from much earlier on that the whole pretense of the movie is a hoax. If the fact that the movie reveals that its story is a hoax isn't enough, it then goes on to try and re-invent the story by having the token retard of the village dress up as the beast to scare the girl without anyone knowing. And the girl, conveniently blind, somehow manages to dodge the retard (focus on the fact that he is a retard, not that in reality she is blind and would have no chance)in what is a slow motion jump out the way of the retard who conveniently falls into a gaping whole (i had to laugh at this point) right behind the girl and dies.
The reason i decided to spoil the entire movie for you is so you don't go see it with expectations of a good movie, but rather expectations of seeing a movie that was intended to be taken seriously, but turns out to be a complete joke. Whatever your view, if you did enjoy this movie, i urge you to get a life because i would rather sit through a token black comedy like "Guess Who" or even a Hillary Duff movie (God help me).
Final Verdict: The Village is crap and i hope the idea of what M Night Shamalyan classes as a thriller, suspense type movie doesn't catch on or else we'll all be bored shitless at the movies.