This is great movie if the premise interests you

Rating: 9/10 (15 November 2013)

I'm a fan of M. Night even though he ruined Avatar and that Jaden/Will Smith movie looked like crap, but I even liked The Village and Lady in the Water.
But I thought this movie was great, better than The Day After Tomorrow, probably best "When Nature Attacks Movie" I've seen. One of my favorite M. Night films.
I thought the event was far scariest than most things in films, the idea of people stopping, talking in gibberish, and than killing themselves in mass was chilling, and this is one of the few films that I sometimes don't want to look at because its scary, and I've seen Cannibal Holocaust more than this.
Mark Walberg's acting is comedic, but very likable, I don't know if he's suppose to be funny but he is, I like him a lot in this movie, but I didn't like how they made his wife into sort of a bad person, and Eliot so innocent. It's kinda bad writing for him to be so perfect and innocent and than make his wife into the bad guy.
My guess is M. Night wrote this film when going through the same thing in his relationship and "The Event" is a metaphor for what he felt was happening to his wife.
So it's kinda biased from a relationship point. I wouldn't have a problem with it if Eliot didn't seem to have any flaws other than being a loveble goof.
The rest of the film is pretty great, and John Leguzamo does a good job as usual, he is one of my favorite actors, and he doesn't half-ass this role, but he ain't getting an award.
It was creepy, thrilling, if your attracted to the idea of people committing suicide in mass than you should like this, but if you can tolerate Japanese movies, Suicide Club is better but 1000 times weirder.
It's not a perfect film, but a lot better than most horror movies, disaster movies, action movies. It's superior to most crap people call good these days, if you're into this and you have a liking for M. Night like I do.
My really score for this is a 7.8 because I'd buy it and I enjoy watching it, but maybe others will think it's stupid, so watch the trailer and if it looks stupid to you don't bother but if it seems like your cup of tea give it a try.