Incredibly poorly done

Rating: 2/10 (25 June 2008)

The movie is filled with red herrings, poor acting, and excels in incoherence. It is as if the Shyamalan himself was a victim of the plant kingdom's 'virus' and gone into self-destruct mode.
I don't think any of the actor's performance could be faulted. The storyline was in shambles. But Shyamalan's produced great stuff before and an apologetic rebuttal is that it was all intentional and that the storyline was mean to be irrelevant. It's stretching it, but too often when watching 'The Happening', you feel the need to defend and explain the movie.
That said, the movie, while frustrating keeps you interested in the sadistic sense: it's intriguing seeing people kill themselves for no apparent reason.