A Very Large Disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (27 February 2005)

After seeing both "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs", I was really looking forward to M. Night Shamalyns "The Village". But much to my disappointment, I found The Village to be nothing like his other films, and definitely of worse quality The first thing I felt watching this film was absolute confusion. The main characters weren't introduced until about midway through, giving very little time to develop them. In fact, they were so undeveloped, I didn't even care when things happened to them. I began rooting for the "creatures" that lived in the village to please end this miserable film.
And that's just my problem with the characters.
The plot was flimsy, unclear, and definitely not the horror plot of the year. It seemed as if the direction had jotted some notes on paper and then the rest of the crew somewhat tried to follow them. With a weak plot and character development, I was not happy.
But I'm not finished.
I didn't find one aspect of this movie frightening in the slightest. There were some parts where my friends and I got ready to scream, only to burst into laughter at the ridiculous attempts to scare us.
I give this movie a 3/10, just because I'm still a "Night" fan. But to be perfectly honest, if you want to waste your life with a bad movie, then the Village is the movie for you