Posted by GhostWhoWalks at 12:06am Jul 14 '08The Happening is 90 minutes of what could be a great story being executed, literally, in the most mind numbingly inept manner possible.
The story of a mysterious virus/disease that causes people to kill themselves has a lot of potential, and there are many ways you could go with it, but M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening misses the mark so badly that it ends up in a completely different solar system to where the mark is.
The acting is awful, and there is a scene about fifty minutes into the movie that has acting so bad, so terrible, so lacking in any kind of passion and life, that it makes you wonder not only how performances so bad actually made the final cut, but that if this drek made the final cut, what kind of horrors were left on the cutting room floor.
Indeed, the acting in this disaster is the true horror, because it's so bad that any kind of suspense is impossible to create.
Not only that, but for 89 of the 90 minutes this movie lasts, not a single thing makes any kind of sense. There is no rhyme, reason, nor any kind of logic to anything that happens in this movie until the last scene, and even then it has nothing to do with the main story of the movie.
The Happening goes down as being one of the worst movies of 2008, and the collective performances of the cast as being one of the worst of all time. Seriously, the acting is just that bad.
If you value your time, your money and, most importantly, your sanity, avoid this pile of four stars like the plague. You will regret every minute, I guarantee it.
The story of a mysterious virus/disease that causes people to kill themselves has a lot of potential, and there are many ways you could go with it, but M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening misses the mark so badly that it ends up in a completely different solar system to where the mark is.
The acting is awful, and there is a scene about fifty minutes into the movie that has acting so bad, so terrible, so lacking in any kind of passion and life, that it makes you wonder not only how performances so bad actually made the final cut, but that if this drek made the final cut, what kind of horrors were left on the cutting room floor.
Indeed, the acting in this disaster is the true horror, because it's so bad that any kind of suspense is impossible to create.
Not only that, but for 89 of the 90 minutes this movie lasts, not a single thing makes any kind of sense. There is no rhyme, reason, nor any kind of logic to anything that happens in this movie until the last scene, and even then it has nothing to do with the main story of the movie.
The Happening goes down as being one of the worst movies of 2008, and the collective performances of the cast as being one of the worst of all time. Seriously, the acting is just that bad.
If you value your time, your money and, most importantly, your sanity, avoid this pile of four stars like the plague. You will regret every minute, I guarantee it.