Less than mediocre

Rating: 1/10 (22 June 2008)

The Happening has not a single redeeming feature that warrants a positive comment. Hampered by lame acting, an impossibly pretentious storyline, clichéd photography and some of the worst dialogue ever written for the screen,it is a perfect storm of mediocrity. If you consciously set out to write a bad movie, it is unlikely that you would create a film as poor as this sad affair.
Mark Walberg is singled out for a performance that is so bad he will cringe every time he looks back on his involvement in this lemon. John Leguziamo fares slightly better only because he has less than five or six minutes screen time (all bad) in this thoroughly ridiculous outing.
I feel sorry for the amateur hour cinema enthusiasts who've tried to find meaning in this drivel.