This is definitely in my top 10...

Rating: 1/10 (23 April 2009)

Worst Films ever! I get this film I really do – I understand that this is Shyamalans' take on the 9/11 attacks but it is just a terrible film.
The time counter that appears every now and again is running along a timescale that is the same as the 9/11 attacks, the scenes have tried to be too clever in portraying this with bodies falling from buildings and mass paranoia & confusion along with an unknown enemy throughout.
The problem iswelleverything! Firstly I must just say that I have seen a lot of films in my time and I am a fan of B-movies and low budget horror films as much as the next guy so I know a bad film when I see one but bad films can be good if they know their limits.
'The Happening' could have been made with a budget a tenth the size of the $60million allocation that it received and it most likely would have been better. How on Earth they spent $60m on this picture I'll never know?! The Director said that it should be viewed as a B-Movie as that is what he intendedthen he should have used the budget of a B-Movie and made it exactly what it isbut he has failed.
The acting is terrible from the likes of Mark Wahlberg & John Leguizamo that is not really to be expected & even the delectable Zooey Deschanel turns in her worst performance to date. There is no real emotion or feeling put forward from any of the actors in the film and you need to have some strong emotions dealing with potentially the end of the Human race surely.
Okay so plants killing people is not the most logical or best of ideas but it has been done well before – see 'The Ruins' & 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers', original or even remakes. Even 'The Invasion' was better than this failure and that is saying something.
Shyamalan tries to scare us with the threat of the plants byyep you guessed itshowing the wind breezing through the canopy of trees and the blades of grass on the ground. If he was trying to make a parable about the way we disrespect our planet then there are a million better ways to do it. This just doesn't work in any way whatsoever.
The special effects or complete lack of them for a $60m dollar movie are terrible. A highlight of bad effects is when the car crashes into the tree in fast motion and people fly out of the front windowcringe worthy.
I had read the reviews of this film previous to watching it and it seemed like it could be okay so I gave it a chance with an open unbiased mind and to be honest I almost turned it off halfway through.
It would have been a much better film if the old lady at the end were the cause of The Event but that risk is never taken sadly. One of the worst films ever made. 1/10