A Movie Review by Cheesebeef:
The Village Idiot - Written, produced and directed by M. Night Shymalama-ding-dong
HOLY **** - that is all I had to say when this wanna-be Hitchcock unleashed his latest surprise twist. While watching this transperant piece of detrius (trash in GRE terms), and realizing that the signature Ding-dong twist was waiting for me, my mind wandered during the slower parts of the movie - well - I guess that encompasses the whole of the movie save the last ten minutes. While racking my brain I stumbled upon what would be the most ridiculous, outrageous and most comical thing it could be - I shook my head and said - NO! No way could that be it . . . It couldn't possibly be . . . About an hour later, Ding-dong truly did unleash the horror the movie was supposed to scare up in the previous 110 minutes - but much to my chagrine, this horror wasn't due to dramatic tension building up and exploding or a
revelation that had me completely duped - no this was the horror of the realization that what I had thought would have been absolutely the worst possible twist that there could be in the world - was the reality of
what I was watching.
Sadly for me - I saw it by myself - I would have killed for someone to have been sitting next to me in order to utter the groaning words of disbelief - OH MY GOD! I walked out of the movie before the credits even rolled - I had seen it all by that point and I had seen enough.
This Director needs to step back and try just telling a straight story - this movie was half-way decent, but so unbvearingly predictable and ultimately ******** due to the "twist" it seems that M. is a one trick pony still living off the success of The Sixth Sense (which I though was one of the best movie I have ever seen) - you guys do realzie that he had two other movies beofre that smash, both which were horrible. I think he caught lightning in a bottle with that one - then had a great conceptual piece with Unbreakable, that was alos a pretty good movie - even though the "twist" was pretty transperant inthat one also - and then made a stunning piece of horror/thriller genre film in Signs before pissing away anything he had built up in that film once the family came out of the cellar.
I didn't believe what a lot of my friends told me about this film, nor the reviews I had read on line - but believe me, it seemed like everyone in the theater I walked out with were groaning.
Absolute Trash - I haven;'t despised a movie like this in a LOOOOOOONG Time.