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27-08-2004, 08:20 PM
For anyone lucky enough not to have seen this; Don't bother....save yourself a few quid, it's rubbish.
The whole thing hangs on one, fairly obvious twist (we'd guessed about half way through and then dismissed our theory as being too lame), with little room for decent acting because of the 'ensemble' cast, no scares to speak of and no real character development....and not an effect in sight, for better or worse.
Imagine an episode of Scooby-doo with a poor Twighlight Zone 'twist', (placed mysteriously well before the actual end of the film) and you've got the Village.
It's not a horror film, despite what the Ads try to imply, and it's not a romance...it's not really much of anything other than a quite effective soporific.
And if anyone saw the travesty that was 'The buried secret of M Night Shyalaman' and is tempted in to seeing 'the Village' because of it, forget it, that whole 'mocumentary' has been admitted to be fake by the studio (which was fairly obvious if you saw it).
And that's what prompted me to write this post; some git decided it would be appropriate to rip-off Blair Witch's approach to sell a film ,an angle that is totally at odds with the subject of the film, and advertise this as a supernatural thriller. Hence I paid to see just that, a supernatural thriller, only to get (SPOILER) a man in a costume and a painfully easy to guess twist. I feel conned. I want my 3 quid back....only 3 losy quid and I still feel ripped off.
In summary, the powers that be are trying to sell a dull and disappointing film by allowing us to believe it to be what we'd expect of a Shyalaman movie (probably what the studio thought they'd get from him in the first place) whereas what he really made reveals that Sixth sense was his one good movie idea and he's been struggling ever since.
Please avoid.
The whole thing hangs on one, fairly obvious twist (we'd guessed about half way through and then dismissed our theory as being too lame), with little room for decent acting because of the 'ensemble' cast, no scares to speak of and no real character development....and not an effect in sight, for better or worse.
Imagine an episode of Scooby-doo with a poor Twighlight Zone 'twist', (placed mysteriously well before the actual end of the film) and you've got the Village.
It's not a horror film, despite what the Ads try to imply, and it's not a romance...it's not really much of anything other than a quite effective soporific.
And if anyone saw the travesty that was 'The buried secret of M Night Shyalaman' and is tempted in to seeing 'the Village' because of it, forget it, that whole 'mocumentary' has been admitted to be fake by the studio (which was fairly obvious if you saw it).
And that's what prompted me to write this post; some git decided it would be appropriate to rip-off Blair Witch's approach to sell a film ,an angle that is totally at odds with the subject of the film, and advertise this as a supernatural thriller. Hence I paid to see just that, a supernatural thriller, only to get (SPOILER) a man in a costume and a painfully easy to guess twist. I feel conned. I want my 3 quid back....only 3 losy quid and I still feel ripped off.
In summary, the powers that be are trying to sell a dull and disappointing film by allowing us to believe it to be what we'd expect of a Shyalaman movie (probably what the studio thought they'd get from him in the first place) whereas what he really made reveals that Sixth sense was his one good movie idea and he's been struggling ever since.
Please avoid.