The Village

I saw The Village last Saturday. It's not bad, but I felt short-changed. The surprise at the end is not satisfying enough. And the fact that the book that was reported to have been plagiarized by Shyamalan, Running Out Of Time, has a better premise isn't helping. I won't recommend it to horror film afficionados. The score by James Newton Howard is very engaging, though. And Bryce Dallas Howard (Ivy Walker) is a very good newcomer actress. I'm sure just like Rachel Hurd-Wood (Wendy in Peter Pan 2003) Bryce may also want to be a marine biologist some day. *corny joke*