The Village | Jayne Atkinson, Adrien Brody

The Village | Jayne Atkinson, Adrien Brody | Brilliant and clever

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The Village

	The Village Jayne Atkinson, Adrien Brody Touchstone / Disney, 2005 average customer review:based on 911 reviews view larger image
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Even when his trademark twist-ending formula wears worrisomely thin as it does in The Village, M. Night Shyamalan is a true showman who knows how to serve up a spookfest. He's derailed this time by a howler of a "surprise" lifted almost directly from "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim," an episode of The Twilight Zone starring Cliff Robertson that originally aired in 1961. Even if you're unfamiliar with that Rod Serling scenario, you'll have a good chance of guessing the surprise, which ranks well below The Sixth Sense and Signs on Shyamalan's shock-o-meter. That leaves you to appreciate Shyamalan's proven strengths, including a sharp eye for fear-laden compositions, a general sense of unease, delicate handling of fine actors (alas, most of them wasted here, save for Bryce Dallas Howard in a promising debut), and the cautious concealment of his ruse, which in this case involves a 19th-century village that maintains an anxious truce with dreadful creatures that live in the forbidden woods nearby. Will any of this take anyone by genuine surprise? That seems unlikely, since Emperor Shyamalan has clearly lost his clothes in The Village, but it's nice to have him around to scare us, even if he doesn't always succeed. --Jeff Shannon

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AMAZING. DONT LIE!

Wow so many people that rate this movie are dumb and have no vision for a good movie! This movie is so damn good! Between the writing, the acting and the music which is so angelic, this is one of my favorite films ever! I hear so many people say they thought this movie was stupid because it wasn't scary. Have they seen M. Night's other movies people? They aren't supposed to be just scary or just one thing, they are always suspenseful, emotional, funny, a little of everything. I look at it more as love story than anything really myself. And in that light it is so beautifully written. Whether you admit it or not, you are shocked at the end and you think "wow could this really happen?" I think this one is tied with Sixth Sense and Sings for me as far as M Night's films go and how emotional they are. 10/10 for me. M Night is a genious!

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Brilliant and clever

I've read some of the many critiscms from other people on this board about The Village, and really can't understand it. Those who say it's not scary enough are really missing the point. OK, so it's being marketed (rather inaccuratly) as a thriller, but it's so much more then that. It's deep and philosophical, and very very clever, and I for one couldn't see the big twist in the story coming. I don't know why some people could as it wasn't the most obvious thing at all. Brilliant brilliant film, and those who keep banging on about it being rubbish really are not understanding the film at all. The performances are first rate, and though it took me a while to get into, once things kick off, it really is something you could discuss all day. A first rate film.

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Underappreciated

I consider myself somewhat of a fan of this director, and I can't help but feel that "The Village" was somewhat slighted by the mainstream. I found it scary and captivating, as so many other of his films. Not his best work, but it does make for a marvelous period piece that is more intelligent than it is credited. The story itself is not as creative as other pieces, but Shyamalan works well with it, making a truly horrifiying piece of film.

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