thoughts on night

Rating: Null/10 (20 September 2004)

The main reason I didn't like this movie was that the director had so much potential for a truly unique masterpiece of horror...a secluded village, scary creatures, characters with secrets (we already know the one thing Night is gifted at--building suspense), and he didn't utilize any of it. Instead, he tries half-heartedly to make the movie into a self-thought piece on building a utopia. And if a story about a group of people trying to build an equal society by controlling information and inducing fear sounds familiar, it is because it is. Read a history book on the USSR or the transcendentalist communities in the US.
I didn't like the movie because I feel Night has so much talent, and as much as I don't want to label him as a 'one-hit-wonder'...I feel like this guy only had one good story up his sleeve.
Also, who cares about the time surprise? You want to know what a good surprise ending is...thinking a character is alive the whole movie and you find out he is dead. The time surprise did absolutely nothing for the movie, and wasn't even necessary. Night needs to just use his talents to create something original again.
Unfortunately, I will probably be seeing his next movie again in hopes that he will change. I got hope for the man.