swing and a miss

Rating: Null/10 (6 July 2008)

Once again M. Night Shyamalan dose not disappoint with his disappointing movies. i recently had the unfortunate pleasure of sitting through MR Shyamalan's latest dumpster baby of a movie the Happening. Well folks like the village and unbreakable his steady decline in the quality of films has not broke. heres whats going on...a mysterious thing is happening people are killing themselves because of it Marky Mark (an otherwise decent actor who phones it in big time) and that girl who was in Almost Famous for a few seconds are on the run from the "happening" they of course figure it out and live while everyone else dies. no big surprise there. but in the midst of what should be world wide chaos due to this unknown event people are relatively calm and almost seem bored. the script would be better suited to line a parrots cage with, the usual twist and turns in one of this guys films are not predictable because they are absent. the film sluggishly mopes about without ever invoking fear or dread; something you might expect from a film about unexplained mass suicides. the characters are transparent and dull and most of the conversation is useless. for a few minutes this guy talks about hot dogs..."do you like hot dogs? hot dogs are underrated. got the mustered" what is that all about. turns out hot dogs would have been an even better villain killing people left and right then what the true "horror" was. as for him trying to shock people with his first R rated film...well have you seen the commercials then you've seen the scary parts already don't worry seeing them out of context is better then having to sit through this junk feast. in short save your money. i have the uneasy notion that this film will have the same effect on its viewers that it dose on the people in it offing themselves. Oh and a quick note to MNS thanks for begin a huge tool and trying to capitalize on peoples fears by having people in NYC jumping form buildings to that horrific sound. if your form NY you know what i mean, this guy shamelessly slapped that scene on screen to invoke fear and to say look how i reached people. well MR Shyamalan i too want to reach people namely you and kick you in the nuts. go see a constipated dog trying to squeeze one out it will be more suspenseful i give you my word.