Slapstick

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2008)

Alright, first I really need to say that when I first read the plot line of this movie, me and my boyfriend both thought of a rip-off of Suicide Club, an Asian production. Thank god it wasn't, or maybe it should have been and maybe it would have been a better movie if it in fact was a rip-off. But no, Shyamalan took a perfectly interesting storyline and made a slapstick movie out of it. Where you think the movie could be okay, especially if you know Mark Wahlberg is starring in it, you should better keep your money in your pocket and really don't go see it in cinema's. This is one movie which I'd like to see copied, so that the director knows it isn't worth buying it.
The Happening tells the story of a weird phenomenon which causes people to commit suicide. Of course people all over America are fleeing and it isn't before long that Mark Wahlberg discovers it might have to do something with the plants. Together with his wife and the daughter of his best friend, he's trying to survive in a world that's gone crazy. Well, that's it for the story. Could be pretty interesting, no? Well, that's what I thought, but Wahlberg is being a stupid comedian, who isn't funny when he has a funny line, but who is funny all the more in the rest of the movie, which causes the movie to be a bad comedy at all the wrong and mismented times. The acting is really really REALLY bad and should be nominated for a stupid Razzie-award, or whatever it is called. It looks cheap and the only person I really believed in this mis-production, was the woman who heard her daughter commit suicide over the phone. And if it wasn't her, then it was her dog.
DON'T GO WATCH IT! IT SUCKS!