Have to agree.
He has been very disappointing since Sixth Sense.
Tho I did like The Village more than most people did. I like the Twilight Zone kind of movies, which is what those 2 movies seemed like to me.
I liked the Village very much. Thoroughly enjoyable. Superb music and suspenseful horror, even if (as everybody did) you ‘get’ early on that there is some fakery to the village.
That ‘reveal’ wasn’t the point of the film, or it would have happened nearer to the end. The film was about the blind girl’s adventure in an extraordinary situation. Great stuff!