Worst Disappointment of 2004

Rating: 3/10 (15 February 2005)

(Many spoilers) I just watched The Village two days ago, with my friend who had already seen it in theaters months before. Even though she told me every secret of the movie before we even started watching it, I was still hoping it would be a little bit interesting. Within the first five minutes of the movie I was already picking apart every little fault, because that's just how horrible it was. The actors were ones no one had ever heard of. My theory was that the crew members working the cameras were given a few lines here and there to say in the movie, which was why you would notice the cameras slowly turning away from the actual scene... because no one was holding them. At times I would see crew members with scripts walking around int he background, and I even noticed one of the light guys standing behind a pole. The plot was interesting, up until you found out it was a bunch of old guys dressed in costumes running around yelling to scare kids. And the blind woman (Ivy)? "I can see colors, but I'm blind. Oh no! I can't see his color daddy!" Then they killed the only character that was making the movie interesting, being Noah. Oh, and how did Ivy know where that trap was when she made Noah fall into it? Thought she was blind? It truly was the worst movie of 2004.