Rent Shooter instead.

Rating: 3/10 (24 October 2008)

I stated that the review contains spoilers, but to be fair the movie was spoiled long before I typed up this review. It was spoiled before they even started filming.
Imagine this, In the US in 2008; plants are mad at humans for hurting the environment so they spray poison in the air that makes you commit suicide. Now, imagine that Mark Wahlberg is running away from the poison filled wind (no, I'm serious, running from the wind) in a field, with some kids and his annoying wife. Mark and his lame crew run faster than the wind apparently, because they find a hut in the woods where some old bag lives. They shack up with her for a day and she yells at Mark Wahlberg for looking at her doll? What? The old woman starts gardening, then turns into a zombie for some reason and kills herself. Also, at some point two 8 year olds get shot for attempting a B&E at the wrong house. If you have imagined the paragraph above, then you just saw "The Happening" and saved yourself an hour and a half.
My favorite part of the movie was when John Leguiziamo tells us he'll be right back after he gets his wife out of the poison. If you can not burst out laughing during this exchange, you're a better man than me. At this point in the movie we know his time is severely limited, because he says good bye for 2 full minutes. Unfortunately he should have spent the time he wasted saying goodbye on doing something cool, because as it turns out, he had a total of 3 minutes to live. Unfortunately, his death as well as every other death in the movie, (except for one out of place lion mauling, which owned) was pretty much done off screen like a made for TV USA movie.
Finally, the end of the movie is probably one of the lamest ends to a movie that I can think of. Really Mark? You need to hug your wife right now, outside in the poison field? Really? I wish they died.
Rent shooter instead.