Plant 9 from Outer Space

Rating: 3/10 (16 June 2008)

It's easy for me to summarize this movie in a single word: annoying.
The longer summarization would be something like: 28 days/weeks Later and Dawn of the Dead (standard zombie movie concept, including the ending) meets War of the Worlds (the 2005 version, same, limited point-of-view) meets Signs (same mystery feeling is tried to achieve) meets The Day After Tomorrow (same idea, the world is taking revenge). Unfortunately, it doesn't work at all.
It's quite difficult for me to understand why 33% votes this movie a 10 at the time of this writing, there must be a lot of fans supporting Shyamalan, everybody I spoke to found this movie absolutely awful. With every movie, M. Night Shyamalan is looking more and more like an Edward D. Wood. He is seemingly not understood and doesn't seem to care about his audience.
In his latest film, a global event is happening. People start to kill themselves all of a sudden. Of course, it all starts in New York. Quite early in the movie, we learn that the plants are attacking us. They're mad at us, because we're destroying the planet (this message is supposed to seep trough, but unfortunately it's "a bit" to obvious). They're releasing a poison that is making us kill ourselves. They first start attacking large groups, then they start attacking smaller and smaller groups with their airborne poison and evil winds. The whole movie you hope there will be some Sixth Sense/Unbreakable/The Village twist to this whole nonsense. Near the end of the movie, there is some evil lady. I really hoped "she did it", but like all the other extra cast in this movie, the only purpose of her was to kill herself in some gory way. The concept of people committing suicide with anything in their vicinity works at the beginning but as the movie advances, it's looking more like slapstick.
The acting is shallow and at times just plain awful. Mark Wahlberg is totally miscast. Zooey Deschanel is just annoying. The whole emotional sub-plot between the two main characters is also just annoying and not to the point. The cast around the main cast just serves as suicide dummies.
At the end of the movie, all remaining subtleness is erased and the general idea behind this mess is slapped into your face as a professor on a talk show explains: Humanity is evil, we should not toy with things we don't fully understand! The cliché doesn't end there, the ending is one from the books: It's not over yet...
For an estimated budget of $57 million, the movie looks cheap. Most of the money must have gone into the marketing.