QUOTE (madra sneachta @ Nov 29 2005, 01:30 PM) Another major Village fan here - I did anticipate the central twist, but found it no less enjoyable for that.
It isn't as though most films don't have predictable endings.
Heres a prediction - In the next Bond film, a supervillian will try to kill him in a slow and painful way without any supervision in a place from which there is no escape.
Bond will escape and foil the baddie.
He will then make passionate love to a woman we originally thought was a baddie, probably in an exotic transport vehicle of some kind, pausing only to make a quip when they're caught by a high ranking British defence forces officer.
We wouldn't have it any other way.
I thought the Village was masterfully written; and full of some great rhetoric.