Saturday, June 14, 2008

Filmcritic.com Hated The Happening

Running from the wind is a recurring theme in this film
Bill Gibron from Filmcritic.com airs out M. Night Shyamalan in this excerpt from his review of The Happening:
It's official: M. Night Shyamalan is no longer the next Spielberg. At this rate he won't even be the next Ray Dennis Steckler. After the stellar Sixth Sense and the equally excellent Unbreakable, he's managed a downward spiral that few on his Tinseltown trek could survive. Sure, Signs made money, and The Village has its defenders, but after the calamitous Lady in the Water, it was commercial do or die for the 38-year-old. So he responded to said challenge by delivering a cockamamie concept involving the end of the world (or at least the Eastern seaboard of the United States part of it) and how a diminishing group of ethnically mixed individuals deal with all the death and destruction.
FYI, Ray Denis Steckler is a B-movie (and sometime porn) producer, which is something Shyamalan can only aspire to at this point.

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