My Thoughts on "The Village"

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2004)

Well, I have to say that I am a fan of M. Night Shyamalan's movies. "The Sixth Sense" was a great movie and also showed a lot of creativity and scary parts that would leave you either startled or impressed. "Unbreakable," however, did not really impress me except for the ending which didn't even come close to my thoughts, but it was still a decent movie. "Signs" was definitely an impressive movie and I loved the suspense and the terror he brought over you while you watched the movie.
Now, "The Village" however was not as impressive as I hoped it would be. A lot of things were left unanswered and a lot of things were not used well enough to bring the same terror that he has brought in his original movies. Like, for instance, it was smart on how the people used the dead bodies of the creatures to keep people from ever attempting to reach the towns, but at the same time, it was stupid. I know A LOT of people went into that theater expecting to see numerous creatures, but we were left with only see one for each scene. There was no terror to the movie except for the scenes that u truly believe there are real creatures in the forest. However, I can say it is the commercials that ruined the movie, they pumped it up to make it seem like it was nothing but a scary movie with terrifying creatures but it turned out to be a movie made out to display nothing but how one person can love another in many situations. Ivy's love to cross the forbidden territory in hopes to find medicine for Lucius, Noah attacking Lucius due to his love for Ivy. M. Night Shyamalan is however very impressive to display these things, but, it wasn't at all what it was shown to be.
I wish it would have shown the creatures when they did exist in the forest and when they did attack the people, before they died.
I would rate M. Night Shyamalan's movie a 6 out of 10.