HUGE LETDOWN

Rating: 6/10 (7 August 2004)

Not giving anything away here, so don't be scared to read if you haven't seen the movie. I am a huge M Night Shymalan fan... Sixth sense was awesome, Signs scared the pants off me, Unbreakable was decent... I was so looking forward to seeing the Village - the interviews I saw, publicity, all indicated another great haunting movie.
BLAH!
I've never been in a movie theater where the whole theater walked out at the end all talking about how bad and stupid a movie was. First i was shocked that the theater was only about a 1/4 full on a Friday evening in it's 2nd week of release (film must be dying quickly). M Night promised this whole suspenseful, scary, plot twisting thing... right up to the end I was waiting for something to twist and it sucked. The plotline is something a 9 year old could write up in school. I guessed the whole plotline about 15 minutes into the movie and the whole time I was saying, boy am I going to be surprised/shocked when I see what the real plotline is. The plot has like 2 incredibly small plot twists.... I think Tom and Jerry cartoons have bigger plot twists. A ton of great actors/actresses in this movie who all acted very well. It was visually beautiful. Everything was fine but the actual story which was HORRIBLE.
I love his movies and this was a MAJOR disappointment to me.