I went to see “The Happening” last night, since all the build-up I wanted to see it opening night…god was I wrong.
I was excited to see this after all the great trailers for it, it being M.Night's first Rated-R film, plus most of his movies were good except for “Lady In The Water”. Unfortunatly this was probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen, seriously. It had no plot really, the little it did I can't spoil, but needless to say if you've seen the trailer, you've seen the plot and pretty much the whole movie. It didn't even follow a simple typical movie flow, there wasn't even a climax, and the only part I though coulda been it, was only about 30 seconds long, with no build-up. You never find out what it is really, there's only a few guesses. The ending made no sense, as in after it goes to the “so much time has passed later point” which actually goes to it out of nowhere, I have no clue why they gave us that information or what relevent point it had on the story.
So if you wanna see “The Happening” here ya go. People kill themselves, then they run for a bit, more ppl kill themselves, then they run again from something they don't know what is, ppl kill themselves, they run, some time passes, and then just more ppl kill themselves. They even state in the beginning that sometimes in nature stuff happens for no aparent reason, that no one knows why it happens, they can only guess, but it still just a theory, and that's the movie. Something happens, they don't know what, it goes away, and they make a theory but state they still pretty much have no clue just what the heck happened exactly during the whole movie.
Everyone on TV in interviews, and TV spots, etc. was all like I wonder what M.Night's shocking ending is gonna be, his endings are always some crazy twist. Well the surprise ending in this one was, he used a hyped-up movie and past recognitions, to steal our money when we weren't looking.
I don't ever care to see one of his movie's again. Although Mark Walhberg was funny in this movie. Most of his lines were him making himself out to be a twit.