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With The Village, Shyamalan continues to paint himself into a corner. People expect the twist, but unfortunately the filmmaker
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A quality cast that includes William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, and Joaquin Phoenix lead M Night Shyamalan's tale about an isolated rustic community For M Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, The Sixth Sense (1999), the twist ending worked well, adding another level to an already decent film. Repeated to good effect in Unbreakable (2000), the surprise ending became the director's signature. But with Signs (2002) it was losing its novelty, or more accurately, it was becoming problematic as there's no way Shyamalan could keep delivering entirely effective twists. Signs had its moments, but the end result was a pompous and ludicrously illogical film. And the twist ploy felt forced. With The Village, Shyamalan continues to paint himself into a corner. People expect the twist, but unfortunately the filmmaker seems to have become a slave to it. The Village is a film based more on a pitch than on a fully realised idea and...
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