M. Night Shyamalan comes through with another piece of garbage. The Happening is only slightly less worse than Intersection and The Village (another Shyamalan film). Here's the premise: People in the Northeast start killing themselves en masse. It is revealed that plants are causing the suicides by releasing toxins because man has become a threat to the planet. I can see how a good story could be spun from this idea, but this movie blows it. The acting is terrible and the rationale for the deaths is like a footnote at the end of the film. It's like 90 minutes of deaths and suspense and then 5 seconds of environmental moralizing. Yawn.
Shyamalan is so stuck on trying to deliver a clever "twist" ending that he forgot how to make good movies. This movie has no real twist, little plot (other than "keep moving away from the wind") and F-grade performances. The highlight is a zookeeper feeding himself to lions (which is shown on an iPhone). If that sounds appealing, you are a clown and deserve this film. You will have a better time lighting $11 on fire and watching it burn than you will watching "The Happening."
I booed at the end of this film.
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