So not "Happening" ; put a fork in MSN - he's done!

Rating: 1/10 (25 June 2008)

THE HAPPENING (2008) *1/2 Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley, Alan Ruck. M.Night Shymalan's shameless attempt to conjur the ghosts of Rod Serling by way of Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" only proves that the once promising filmmaker is running on vapors in this ridiculous sci-fi What-IF Doomsday Thriller when an inexplicable event occurs causing people to kill themselves for no unknown reason and incorporating the usual conspiracy theories and outlandish scientific 'reasonings' that simply wind up as a lead balloon of a movie that is truly disappointing on all counts: wooden acting, stilted dialogue (the likes of which had me rolling my eyes it was so poorly done!) and some truly unintentional laugh-out loud moments of WTF?! I'm done with MNS; you'd be wise to do the same.