MTV's Kurt Loder
wrote a review of this garbage movie which pretty much nails it. Here is a choice excerpt:
I don't want to say "The Happening" is a bad movie. Well, yes I do; in fact, consider it said. But it's bad in more than just an everyday, sure-does-suck kind of way. Director M. Night Shyamalan's last picture, "Lady in the Water," based on a bedtime story that put everybody to sleep, was a bad movie plain and simple. "The Happening," on the other hand — with its what-the-hell plot, lobotomized dialogue and consequent B-movie performances — is worse, in a way, because littered among its many baffling passages are brief, vivid demonstrations of what a skillful filmmaker Shyamalan can be. And has been. I'd say "will be again," too, but that no longer seems such a sure thing.
Loder and I part ways on that last point, though. I think Shyamalan is completely washed up and is incapable of making good movies. The Happening continues the lineage of
The Village and
Lady in the Water, which were such amazing pieces of trash, there is no going back for this guy.
MTV's Kurt Loder wrote a review of this garbage movie which pretty much nails it. Here is a choice excerpt: 
1 comment:
The ending of Split was pure fanservice bullshit twist but overall it was a solid thriller. As long as he knows his limits, he is actually an effective filmmaker. We will see if he has actually turned a corner in his career but I'm actually looking forward to seeing if he can pull off a mash-up shared universe movie.
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