I Hope M. Night Shy-whatever ends up in the unemployment line soon

Rating: 2/10 (3 June 2009)

Oh for Chrissakes, what a mess. Having watched a number of this director's fiascos, this has to be the worst. The acting is atrocious enough that this might end up as a cult film. Throughout the flick, I kept hoping the whiny wife would end up walking backwards at Superman speeds to turn the earth on its axis back to the point where she was in an incubator - then the hospital would have a power outage, sparing us from her woodened-face delivery. Mark Wahlberg breathes a lot, and talks plastic plants down from their homicidal tendencies. Annoying teenagers annoyingly try to kick through a barricaded residence, and get shot for their annoying efforts - cheerworthy if anyone even cared about the plot at this point. The reclusive old woman who succumbs to the plants' master design should have been played by Cloris Leachman a la "Malcolm in the Middle." Quit giving this loser director any money to continue to foist his crap on the unsuspecting. And Wahlberg warbling "Black Water" was a truly cringeworthy moment. Sucks sucks sucks!!!