a very B-rate film

Rating: 3/10 (16 June 2008)

I was shocked at how poorly made this film was. There are high school kids who, given the same amount of money, would have made a better film. The idea behind the film is plausible. I was intrigued by it. But 'The Happening' totally fails to live up to its promise. The acting is bad. The special effects are horrible. And when it tries to be 'Hitchcock', it's laughable. This is a movie you can sit through. It didn't make me walk away. But there are parts of this movie that seem like a spoof of thrillers... only they're not meant to be spoofs. For example, there is a scene where supposed home video of a bloody scene. It's a joke. You look at it and go, 'they've got to be kidding'. And when a car rams into a tree, a dummy goes flying out the front window about 50 feet, and it looks totally fake. All you can do is laugh, and say 'how could a movie have gone so wrong?'