Nothing much happened

Rating: 2/10 (19 June 2008)

No spoiler warning needed for this flick - the movie itself has the spoiler about halfway through, after that it's anti-climactic and quite boring. The premise of plants suddenly mutating and gaining abilities to sense nearby people, then release toxins to make them commit suicide, is laughable. Anyone who has had chemical warfare training knows that wind will disperse airborne toxins, but apparently that's when the plants are most aware or something. The characters are in danger, you can tell, not by their reactions (department store mannequins would react more believably) but because the wind blows the trees around and the schmaltzy music gets really loud (which kept me awake at least). And after the holocaust is over, things just go back to normal. Except... OOOOH! It might happen AGAIN!! Somewhere else!!! Scary!!! I get the impression that someone had a basically cool idea, then sat around with a bunch of other people thinking of how to make it work. Then about halfway through the session someone said "The heck with, let's go get a beer and start shooting next week." Whoever you guys are, I want my seven bucks and two hours of my life back. And for those of you rating this movie as a ten... you're saying this turkey is as good as "Casablanca" or "Ben Hur"? C'mon...