Magical

Rating: Null/10 (14 December 2004)

Oh for Christ's sake... Okay, forget the 'predictable' ending! What the bloody hell are you people complaining so tiresomely about?! You just do NOT get this film at all, do you? The Village had:
-Atmosphere
-Excellent acting (from Bryce Dallas Howard and Adrien Brody in particular)
-Incredible directing
-Intelligence
-Depth
-Many, many, many hidden meanings, which quite obviously a LOT of people somehow missed
-A laughable ending that was however recovered by Shyamalan's classy, creepy direction
-A very sad, eerie music score
-A very exclusive 'magic' quality that very few films have.
People who complain are clearly a bit short sighted; they'd rather The Village was indeed the emotion-free horror film with shallow scares that they clearly expected. Well: it's a bit more clever than that, chaps!