A huge disappointment and a great laugh!

Rating: 1/10 (16 June 2008)

This movie went straight to my top three of worst movies ever. Really, my friends said that it was great, like the Sixth Sense and Signs and I'm afraid it's nothing like them! Nothing! I can't stress this enough! The movie started off badly and went progressively worse from there... It's like a showcase of what you must NEVER do in a movie. The casting was a disaster - Zooey Deschanel kept opening her eyes so wide I thought they'd pop out at some point, that's pretty much all she did throughout the whole movie now that I think about it; Mark Wahlberg was incredibly unconvincing as the man in charge, a huge disappointment and all the acting was rather forced, and I don't understand why... Other than that, the plot was missing for the most part, there were way too many distracting characters - people who have nothing to do with the plot (like Joey, then the weird old lady - she was way too strong a character! and then again - what about the slap at the table or the doll??? why, oh why????, then the daddy of the little girl (bad acting there again), the dialogue was terrible, there were too many unexplained and underdeveloped things - the men in the shack who shot the two boys?!?! Now why on earth did we need that? or the silly mood ring? it didn't bring any depth to those two-dimensional characters if that was the idea, just completely useless, seems like Shyamalan relied too much on the "some things cannot be explained," and this is just weak! I started laughing some time around the short phone movie with the lions, then couldn't stop till the end... It's just too funny that movie, really, if nothing else... But that's not the point, right? And the open ending with France is just too trite, I'd expect more of Shyamalan, can't believe he came up with something so weak and unfinished like The Happening... Shame on you, Shyamalan, shame on you!