So the plants are mad at Man? I guess they had to see 'The Happening'...

Rating: 1/10 (15 June 2008)

I have just one question after watching this movie: how many more movies does M. Night Shamblebumble have to make before people don't expect anything but crap from him? Right, so one morning people start losing their train of thoughts in Central Park, stand still or start walking backwards and finally kill themselves. Close by construction workers walk off the roof - the end of the world is here, obviously! Or maybe just the beginning of one utterly bad movie...
Frankly, this movie fails on all level possible: the acting is somewhere between high school drama club and cardboard, the cinematography is boring, the score goes from overdone to pointless, etc.
but worst of all the story goes nowhere! Within the first few minutes we get told that 'toxins' are shutting off our self preservation drive (which obviously means that everybody will kill him- or herself asap!), before half the movie is done we know that plants can evolve to use pheromones to attract other species to defend them (which obviously means that plants can make us suicidal, which combined with the 'toxins' bit dooms us all!) and then the heroes walking and run and watch and the wind is blowing (because obviously the wind is controlled by the plants too!) And then suddenly it's all done after 25 hours (not to mention that it was all localized to the Northeast of the US anyways!) only to start 3 months later in France again while in the US scientists are just scratching their heads...
So, obviously plants know state and national borders, they can control the spread of whatever they are oozing, they make battle strategies, and they are royally p**sed... but a cute little girl sitting on a swing bolted into an old maple is cool!
Well, let's face it: the bigger thread than those evil plants is a really bad writer/director with the initials M.N.S.! Maybe the plants will like us again if we turn M.Night Shlooppooppoop into compost?