The Village People are more entertaining than the "The Village"!

Rating: 3/10 (1 August 2004)

I am a HUGE fan of M. Night (seeing and enjoying "Signs", "The Sixth Sense" and "Unbreakable").So, I went into "The Village" expecting to see an entertaining and thrilling movie, which we all know M. Night is capable of making.What I got was a boring, actionless, non-thrilling piece of garbage.However, I would like to say that the only thing that saved me from walking out of the movie was the incredible performances (mainly by Joaquin Phoenix and Bryce Dallas Howard) and the anticipation that the movie might actually take a turn for the better when the "surprising twist" was finally revealed.HA!I was wrong!The "surprising twist" was so completely ridiculous and predictable that I almost cried because I was so disappointed by M. Night.WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS HE THINKING WHEN HE WROTE THAT ENDING?For all of you who have not seen this and absolutely refuse to heed the warnings to avoid it, I pity you.When you see the "surprising twist", you will sit in your seat and ponder (because the surprising twist is revealed 30 minutes before the movie's ending) why you wasted $8 and two hours of your life!What's makes me the most angry is the trailer for the movie that calls the movie "thrilling and terrifying"!It is not scary.M. Night tries to scare you by making the music in the movie gradually increase in intensity and then gives you NO SCARE.Everyone was so not thrilled and scared that I heard a lot of talking and joke-cracking during the supposed "frightening scenes".More often during the movie, I found myself laughing rather than being "terrified and thrilled".When the movie finally ended, the Friday night crowd who came seeking a thrill/scare exited the movie theater with groans and one moviegoer actually saying "THAT WAS AWFUL"!I agreed!Avoid this movie!IT IS M. NIGHT'S WORST YET (AND PROBABLY ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES I HAVE SEEN IN A WHILE)!I give it a 3/10(only because of Joaquin and Bryce)!Stay at home and watch "The Sixth Sense" and save your $8 for something that is worth the thrill!