Bad M Night Shyamalan Bad!

Rating: 1/10 (28 August 2013)

(I'll warn you before I talk about the ending)
I know people like this movie, I know that in the grand scheme of things it could be a good movie. But it isn't... let me count the ways; stale, boring, lifeless characters under the genre Horror to NOT have any horror and a cheesy down right stupid twist ending make this movie not only pointless but terrible. You could argue that no one saw that coming, sure and you'd be right. The reason why people couldn't see that ending coming? Cause its out of place and stupid. I know he is a good director and a good writer but this has to be him laziest work ever. (I take that back because he has out done himself with Happening and Last Airbender) It doesn't help that there are no scary moments and the actors are dreadfully boring.
Not a single scary thing happened during this entire movie. It's now labelled suspense but the trailers during its release made it look like a horror movie. Which is why I saw it. I like horror movies and this wasn't horror. Two cheap jumpscares that wouldn't scare my mom, extremely dumb monsters that you only see a few times and they never built the horror up to be suspenseful or have any tension/atmosphere. This movie failed in every aspect.
!!::WARNING SPOILERS IN THIS PARAGRAPH::!! Okay... so they are going to create their own perfect village away from crime and blah blah blah. If the story is set in the present time why the hell did they go and make their village ye-olde times? Wouldn't a nuclear war that killed every part of the world except for their village be better? Or a virus swept across the world and they were immune? You could wear normal clothes and have normal tools just don't bring any cell phones or computers to the village. Anyone who isn't an elder doesn't know a damn thing, kids only know the world they live in by what they are told from parents.... if the kid doesn't find out on their own. You don't even mention phones to them and they will never know that technology existed. Or hell pretend your Omish at least, that way you can have the helpful tools for crops and farming but no technology for them to ever find out what happened. Going outside the village? Anything would of been better than dumb people in costumes! Tell them there isn't anything out there but barren wastelands and dangerous mutated animals. Poison gas, radiation or the scariest thing of all... people. Tell them there are groups of dangerous murdering psychos who all have their own villages or something. Anything would have been better than "we live in ye-olde times" cause there a tons of things that could ruin their cover up.
I'm not writer I'm just a movie go-er but I was not at all shocked or scared by this movie. I'm sorry I know people say there are some really amazing cinematic skills in this movie but I can't get past how stupid it all is.