Nothing Happening here folks, move along please...

Rating: 2/10 (22 June 2008)

I have to agree with the previous poster that the movie had a lot of nothing happening. The characters seemed to be cut out of cardboard (one dimensional generic cutouts). The story was promising with some interesting takes on End of the World tropes. But, in the end Night didn't deliver to his potential.
In The Happening, M. Night Shyamalan strengths are overshadowed by a "message" that is forcefully shoved down the movie audiences throat. He missed an opportunity to play to his strength of blurring the boundary between the fantastic and reality because, in my opinion, he wanted to make the message as obvious as possible.
At this point in human history, the message that we are "hurting" nature is something best preached to the choir like Al Gore did in An Inconvenient Truth. The general public resents being force fed Eco Hysteria in what is promoted as an End of the World thriller.
For a more in depth review, see my blog. (Caution: it does contain spoilers.)
Steven Mock