previews misrepresented the movie

Rating: 3/10 (6 September 2005)

My wife and I somehow endured the whole boring movie The Village. We feel that the previews misrepresented the end result and that viewers should be warned. We had seen the previews and had rented the movie expecting to see a horror movie. Instead we got a character study where nothing really happens. Besides that there are too many occurrences that ask the viewer to accept unreasonable possibilities.We are expected to believe that the blind heroine Ivy would be able to make her way through a forest, climb a barrier and then luck into finding a sympathetic ranger on the other side. Not just a sympathetic one but one who just happens to have access to the drugs that she needs. He gets them without question? Come on, how real is that? Of course, the hero, played by a sullen Joaquin Phoenixis is somehow able to survive the multiple stab wounds and resulting infection incurred from Adrian Brody until she returns. Amazingly the blind Ivy has no problem finding her way back to the village that no other person has found in years. I was willing to concede that a town could have been like this eons ago but with the SUV/TV scenes, we all know that such a town could not happen in this day and age. I guess the village was in a no fly zone as well. The fact that there really are no monsters in the woods and the town elders continue the facade at the end of the movie is mind numbing as well. The other shame of this movie is that former Oscar winners are wasted in such a boring misleading movie.