The Happening......WHAT HAPPENED?

Rating: 4/10 (20 January 2011)

In 2008, M. Night Shyamalan directed and wrote his next film, "The Happening" where weird things start to -- happen!! It was better than some of his past films, but it, like other films he directed, can not live up to the audience appeal of "The Sixth Sense (1999)."
Mark Wahlberg stars as a high school science teacher whose theory of bees disappearing is the premise for the film. The story is out there, somewhere! But that is what an M. Night Shyamalan film is based on, strange ideas and far out themes. This is however, not a film for children or the faint of heart. Many images and depictions of death are shown, and in graphic detail.
Shyamalan tries to live up to the wonderment of Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen King, but he falls short of their glory, and his films pay the price. Somehow though, his films continue to be released in amazement. But as long as they do, audience will flock to see them.