Missing believable story

Rating: 2/10 (1 January 2009)

I found this movie totally retarded. I saw a few other posts claiming a lot of people who don't like the movie probably were expecting just your typical run of the mill thriller movie... enter the stereotypical leading man who saves the day. I totally disagree.
The problem with this film begins with the story itself. I'm not sure if maybe it was a matter of delivery or acting, but I just couldn't swallow it. Plants and trees somehow cause people to commit suicide. Supposedly it's an airborne thing this seems to be in pockets mostly where large groups of people are concentrated and is just limited to a few states on the eastern part of the US (at least at first). The main characters of this movie somehow quickly arrive at this concocted conclusion, drop everything in their lives, head west, then stop and head for rural unpopulated areas.
There were just one after another case of bizarre situations, but I watched this move the entire time thinking I just can't see it happening this way in real life. The situations might be bizarre, but real people would never react this way. Although the acting wasn't all that good, I can't blame the actors or actresses. It almost was like Shyamalan had an idea, wrote it down and then let everyone just work out the details with no real thought. It was just a total mess.
I guess everything else about the movie, it's music, directing, acting, photography, etc.., really make no difference if the story itself is really bad.
I'd recommend skipping this one. I wouldn't even waste time watching it on regular network TV. It's just not worth it.