Review of The Village

The Village (2004)
Scooby Doo Meets Twillight Zone
13 August 2004
This movie is a lot like Identity in that you go in thinking you're getting a straight up horror movie, and instead it turns out it's not real.

I think it's silly these reviews that say how predictable it is. Romantic comedies are predictable. This isn't predictable. I knew there was some kind of twist to the movie, but I didn't sit there brainstorming through it trying to figure it out. I just watched and let the story go where it did.

I guess if someone told me the first twist is a Scooby Doo twist, and the 2nd twist is a Twillight Zone/Identity type twist, then I'd probably have caught on.

There's some moments of creepiness in this, but for the most part it isn't nearly scary enough.

Sigourney Weaver and Brendan Gleeson are wasted in this.

William Hurt has a good part.

The Villiage is a rental. Or just watch that Twillight Zone where the guy thinks he's on Mars but really is in the desert.
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