Requires an intelligent audience

Rating: 9/10 (31 July 2004)

This movie is plain brilliant. Period. The majority of people will not like it, however, because the majority of people do not have the I.Q. to understand it. If you like at most of the reviews here, they are riddled with a lot of "How come's" and "Why don't they just's." All of these are easily refutable. For example:
HUGE SPOILER WARNING!!!
I've heard many morons say "Of all the people they could send, why would they send the blind girl?" They absolutely must send the blind girl because she cannot see! What would happen if she saw a car? She would freak out, and the secrecy of their village would be ruined. That's why the escorts had to stop at the trail.
"Why don't they just go out and find another place to live?"
Because William Hurt's character, the son of a billionaire, was exposed to an enormous amount of greed, backstabbing, murder, and distrust that billionaires have to deal with. The Village is something he has funded to keep his people safe from this corruption. The "People of whom we don't speak" are just an insurance policy to keep them out of the forest and away from the borders.
This movie is incredible.