biggest let down of the year

Rating: 4/10 (13 June 2008)

oh man, i can't believe what i just saw. Being a big fan of M. Night, i was super excited to see the happening. i really love the sixth sense, and the village, and really like signs and unbreakable. there's just something those films have that i like, something that gives those films that m. night touch.
i'll never forget the first time i saw his first movie Wide Awake. I was sitting at home flipping through channels and just happened to catch the last half of a movie that i knew nothing about. while i watched it though i kept thinking to myself that it reminded me of other movies. i couldn't quite put my finger on it until the end when everything came together. i told myself that it reminded me of m. night shyamalan, and then as the credits rolled and i saw that i was right i was hooked. i LOVED the fact that he has so many different kinds of movies, but they all still had that same particular m. night style to them.
Sadly, The Happening was missing this quality.
first of all, the acting was terribly unbelievable. No one seemed like they were even afraid. even during the "intense" parts all of the dialouge was just dull conversations.
Terrible storytelling also. how are we supposed to feel for the characters when they are attacked if we don't even get the chance to know them. every 5 minutes a new character was getting introduced only to be killed in the next couple of scenes.
Pointless gore. this could be my least favorite part about the film. one thing i've loved about his other movies was that everything had a point. well in The Happening NOTHING has a point, let alone the violence and gore, which really surprised me coming from a director so adamant on scaring and shocking people without using gore.
M. Night really reached a new low with the Happening.
please, don't go see it.