The title refers to M.Night Shyamalan's failing career.

Rating: Null/10 (12 October 2014)

There was a time where a great filmmaker by the name of M.Night Shyamalan was creating films such as "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs." I wonder why this once gifted brilliant artist turned to making awful apocalyptic films that made good actors give horrible performances. "The Happening" can be thought of as more than just the title of a bad movie, but what is happening to the talent of Mr. Shyamalan. "The happening" is also about a disease or natural defect in which people space out and kill themselves. It's occurring in Central Park, where high school science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife Alma (Zoey Deschanel) must fight to survive and escape from the terror. The whole idea of a disorder in which you go crazy and kill yourself is something hat SNL would do a spoof on as one of their prime skits. To make a serious drama about it, and have leading actors try and deliver strong performances turns it into something pretty silly. Mark Wahlberg gives his worst job of acting, and is even a better wrapper than an actor here. He talks so stupidly, and it is hard to take him seriously in such a crazy subject matter. Deschanel out acts him. She's god awful as well. The directing by Shyamalan is over dramatic and tries to be suspenseful when really there's nothing to shock you. His writing is worse. The characters he writes are used as a way to make the story feel as if it is effective, but really we have seen similar stories in films way less audacious and pointless. I miss the old days when M.Night Shyamalan was behind the camera and writing mind adventures instead of laughable disaster movies with no suspense and terrible directing.