There is nothing going on there...

Rating: 1/10 (7 July 2008)

There is nothing happening in that movie. It is not intriguing, it is fascinating, it is not even scary. It is kind of interesting at the beginning when that thing start happening but when it just go on and on without a clear explanation of what is happening and why is happening well...you just go brain-dead.
There are few guesses and theories but nothing concrete so the audience has to guess for themselves what the hell is going on. And the scenes where they are running from the wind on the field are more bizarre than scary. The suspense is ridiculous and does not deliver at all.
As of the actors, don't even get me started. I have always loved Mark Walhberg, but the last time I saw him in a good performance was in Invincible. Here he is as sweet as he could be as a high school teacher but not truthful at all, his performance seems a bit exhausted and his character way undeveloped. His wife in the movie Zooye Deschanel is such a beautiful big blue eyed girl that looks more like the students he is teaching than his wife. She was acting weird from the get going so when that happening happened she just looked like a scared animal out of place. I think that the only reasonable character was John Loguisamo's one, who actually managed to breathe some substance into it.
Anyway all in all I cannot say I enjoyed the movie. I think the idea is actually pretty good one but the execution of it very poor. May be it would have worked better if there was some kind of reason for this to happen or a pattern or any kind of logic that could answer all the questions this movie has raised. M. Night Shyamalan though has the habit of just asking them and leaving us empty-handed as in The Signs and The Village. Actually this movie is like a poorer version of The Signs, with the best bits cut out.