Mark Wahlberg weak

Rating: 6/10 (28 October 2013)

Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) is a high school science teacher. There is a weird science story about bees disappearing. Then suddenly people start killing themselves in bizarre ways. It's a strange phenomenon that causes mass panic. Elliot and his wife Alma (Zooey Deschanel) escape Philadelphia with his friend Julian's (John Leguizamo) young daughter Jess.
Everybody should stop dumping on M. Night Shyamalan and judge his movies based on what's on the screen. And what's on the screen has many problems. Mark Wahlberg just can't hold the movie screen. He doesn't project a big enough presence. If he calmed down, he could actually do better than this high school drama level acting.
The odd deaths are somewhat distracting. I get that it's a big selling point but it's a silly cartoon. It becomes a matter of how to make dying crazy. I like more the confusion of not knowing. If he held back in the beginning, the deaths would be more profound later in the movie. I like the apocalyptic aspect of the movie but I'm not so much into the explaining and environmental idealism.