What's Happening? An Awful and Boring Time, That's What

Rating: 1/10 (14 June 2008)

It's been a while since I've felt so obliged as to write a review on here. This film truly isn't worthy of one. All I can say is that it is really awful. The dialog is laughably ridiculous (people in the theater in the screening I attended were actually laughing throughout) and the acting equally as bad. I was really hoping to see MNS return to his former grandeur with The Happening and I had faith in him. But this movie is so tawdry and boring that it is beyond salvage. For those calling this a "thinking man's movie," I hate to see how elementary your "thoughts" are.
I have a Ph.D. and there's nothing I love more than a movie that truly invokes thought. This piece of detritus certainly does not. It is plagued by a rushed storyline with absolutely no climatic redemption whatsoever. Clever marketing might yield exceedingly good profits (which could save MNS from this being the nail in his coffin) until word-of-mouth exposes the fraud this film truly is.
I am so disappointed in this movie. I remember feeling this cheated after being completely dissatisfied and disgusted with Lady in the Water; it's equally as bad with The Happening. Don't waste your time, money, or energy with The Happening...Because Happening, it simply isn't.