Summer number two with movies hyped with good trailers, and bad movies.

Rating: 5/10 (30 July 2004)

Last summer there was the Matrix Reloaded, amazing trailer, terribly stupid
movie. This summer The Village, outstanding trailer, worst movie I have seen all summer.
This thing reminded me of a serious case of blue balls, you take so much time thinking about how great the experience will be, then the time comes, the girl starts in on you, teasing you slowly, slowly, slowly, then its almost as though your roommate walks into the room, or in this case the director smacks you in the balls giggles and prances off into the forest while draped in a red hood.
SPOILERS. Yes a red hooded trickster is all we are treated to here, and the only logical direction is to just make the entire ending into as Hurt's character so eloquently puts it, "a farce". So after we find out that the assailant is no more than a retarded piano playing holocaust surviver. We are treated to an insanely uninteresting chase through the woods involving a porcupine a blind girl, and a hole . Weird, slightly off topic someone just text messaged my girl friend saying "she never told us what his color was" i think that was from the movie regarding Joaquin Pheonix's aura which Ivy could see. Anyways. With all of the
revelations that come at the end of the movie, all we are left with is a cool idea pulled off poorly and a movie with no replay value what-so-ever. Because what made the sixth sense so great was that the twist gave a new point of view for the movie and doesn't lessen the impact of the events prier to the twist. In the
Village the twist defeats any and all reason to watch it again, the suspense is now dead, seeing as how there was never anything to be scared of. Also the
lack of any real lead was evident, I figured Joaquin would take the lead but he is only in about 20 minutes total, and the others merely support, and the blind girl feels like a support with too big of a role. Overall I understand Night's intentions in giving us a massive twist ending but what he did was lose his touch, and
destroy the replay value. 5/10 - you can't deny that he does have a good idea on his hands but if he could go back and re shoot this misguided lunk of
wood nymph turd, he could possibly make this worth viewing. Heed my word
there is no reason to see this movie what-so-ever.