The film's premise had possibilities, but the pacing is terrible, the story is rolled out in such a way that the plot twist- there's always a plot twist- is pretty obvious, and the movie doesn't so much come to an end as just stop suddenly. There's no real resolution/pay off. Worst of all, Shyamalan makes the bizarre choice to have the film's most compelling character- Lucius, played by Joaquin Phoenix- stabbed halfway through the film and spend the rest of the run time in a coma. We literally never hear from him again. Who the heck thought that was a good idea? On the other hand, there are some very good moments in The Village- all of them centering around Lucius, which makes it doubly unfortunate when he spends half of the film unconscious in bed.
After work yesterday, I went over to my sister's place because she was hosting a Halloween movie night. We ordered Chinese, handed out candy to trick-or-treaters, and watched The Village, M. Night Shyamalan's 2004 film starring Joaquin Phoenix and Adrien Brody. The movie isn't terrible by any means, but it's not great either and it was really when it was released that people began getting an uneasy feeling that something was going wrong with Shyamalan's work. The film's premise had possibilities, but the pacing is terrible, the story is rolled out in such a way that the plot twist- there's always a plot twist- is pretty obvious, and the movie doesn't so much come to an end as just stop suddenly. There's no real resolution/pay off. Worst of all, Shyamalan makes the bizarre choice to have the film's most compelling character- Lucius, played by Joaquin Phoenix- stabbed halfway through the film and spend the rest of the run time in a coma. We literally never hear from him again. Who the heck thought that was a good idea? On the other hand, there are some very good moments in The Village- all of them centering around Lucius, which makes it doubly unfortunate when he spends half of the film unconscious in bed. *My sister has been binge-watching The X-Files on Netflix and decided to carve her pumpkin with the show's logo:
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