Hide! The Plants are attacking us ...

Rating: 5/10 (22 June 2008)

Imagine you're in the Central Park, New York, and suddenly everybody stops moving. Calm - and then mass suicide. That's the beginning and the main scenario of The Happening. It spreads to a wide area at the northern east cost of the US. You'll accompany Elliot, his girl friend Alma, John, Elliots best friend, and his daughter fleeing out of that area. It quickly becomes clear, that it might be the plants, that (re)attack human beings.
This Movie is based on the red tide, a natural phenomenon caused by algae, that kills fish stocks all over the world. The difference is that it is not caused on algae but on trees, bushes and so on. And it is not sure whether that really is the reason for "the happening".
Due to Elliot is not the hero, who tries to fix it, this film is often a little bit boring. So you'll see him and the people he attempts to rescue traveling to an unaffected region, sometimes meeting other groups, that suddenly turn into brainwashed ones committing suicide.
That film is far not the best, but good enough to fill a pause. So it gets five stars.