I wonder how/why they released the movie

Rating: 2/10 (28 August 2008)

To be frank, i have never been a great Fan of shymalan, however i have never hated any of his movies as much i have for this one. Of all his films i had liked "The Village" because of its Atmospheric feel and pretty good a Cast.
However "the Happening" just does opposite to its name. The number one problem of this movie is its Casting and horrendous acting. Forget about the Plot or the story, which anyways is so unrelaistic and its bad script makes it even so loose. There are no subplots or even tie-ins of events that happen or are shown. If it was deliberately intended to be open ended where audiences join the missing pieces in the end, then i would say it completely fails here. You cant expect Audiences to fill in the parts of script that you were too lazy to leave empty.
Next comes the Acting and Characters. C'mon we are talking of a Big budget A+ production movie here. Script is so bad that at times you feel like laughing at the way characters are reacting to certain tense events. Mark Wahlberg, is given some so stupid lines, that you wonder if he is the same guy who has acted so well in other films like "Departed". even the support cast is horrible. I don't know if Director intentionally wanted the characters to behave funnily in some extremely tensed moments. I forced myself to watch it till the end only hoping that there will be some twist or some kind of revelation.
In the end i can only give it 2 stars and this is just because of the intent of creating something different. It otherwise loses on all fronts , Directing, Acting, Story, which are all ZERO stars.