A waste of money!

Rating: 2/10 (3 August 2004)

Well, the hype worked! I wasted my money to see 'The Village'. It's very obvious why there needed to be a 'Buried Secrets' (hoax) documentary. This movie reeks! The plot is apparent way too soon, and the twists are more like slow turns. Insignificant characters are developed while key players are left for us to guess about their objectives and personalities. The secrets that are withheld from the viewers are mostly insignificant. The plot is released too soon and there is a feeble attempt to cloud it with trivial information. The Village is very slow moving. I kept waiting for the pace to pick up. If it did, I must have blinked. Mr. Shymalan, give us some credit for our intelligence and the ability to deduce future actions from scrambled information. This is a poor investment of good entertainment time and money.