Movie Review: The Village

News Type: Other — Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:56 AM EDT

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Every village has an idiot, or so the saying goes.

And apparently in this village that idiot is M. Night Shyamalan, who went from making the great Sixth Sense to the so-so Unbreakable to this piece of cow manure.

The plot is predictable, the story boring. The acting...well, the acting is good, but the movie has characters that this reviewer has no interest in or warmth toward. So it begs the question: Are the actors good at playing characters that are boring or can you tell?

If nothing else this movie answers one question: If a movie about a forest bombs does it make a sound?

The answer is yes.

And that sound is someone asking, "Tell me again why I rented this?"

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

What did others think of this movie?

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1 vote

#1 - Tue Apr 3, 2007 10:52 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

I thought someone would come along to defend this movie

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1 vote

#2 - Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:15 PM EDT

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ErinK

I won't defend it, but I will say I liked the ending... and not just because it was the end. It's a shame that the rest of the movie (yes, I'm talking to you killer mole costume) didn't live up to it. Luckily I was doing homework while I watched it, so the time wasn't a total waste.

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#2.1 - Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:35 PM EDT

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Scott (Scoop) Butki

Luckily I was doing homework while I watched it, so the time wasn't a total waste.

Maybe if I'd been multitasking more when I saw it I could say the same

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#3 - Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:00 PM EDT

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yasmin

I've actually liked all his movies including this one. Hell, I loved Lady in the Water, so um yeah.

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#4 - Fri Apr 27, 2007 12:32 PM EDT

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