The village idiot

Rating: 2/10 (2 August 2004)

Oh come on, This movie starts with a 3+1/2 stars and within 20 minutes goes to a 1+1/2 star ( the +1/2 is for the cast). Shyamalan disappoints the viewers with this Twilight-Zone(istic) television story line. For the first twenty or so minutes we all waited for the story to build up under the Shyamalan steam. In the scene where the "creature" breaks the barrier, the entire movie theater viewers take a jump towards anticipation, similar to Shyamalan's first creature sightings in "Signs". Then the theater started to snooze. The story line was so weak, I couldn't wait for a commercial break. At least the Twilight Zone could have wrapped this up in under 30 minutes (with commercials!) I sure am glad of the one line script to keep the "airplanes and jets" from flying over the movie! I guess Shyamalan didn't want a bomb to drop on this film. It didn't need one.