Forget the negative comments, go see it!

Rating: Null/10 (15 August 2004)

I had heard mostly dreadful things about The Village, and I am among those who were disappointed by Unbreakable and Signs after loving The Sixth Sense.
Clear your expectations as best you can and go. It's not in the same genre as his other work -- it's a political film that may turn out to be a more important election-year entertainment than Farenheit 9/11.
Bryce Howard is amazing -- the dialog some viewers object to has an important reason to sound exactly the way it does -- and I thought the ending, while not in the 180-degree-turnaround category of Sixth Sense, was extremely satisfying even for those of us who suspected it might be something along the lines it is.
See it!