Painful at best

Rating: 4/10 (25 July 2008)

I cant believe I watched the whole thing.
This film treats the audience like they are idiots. The plants are getting there revenge? C'mon, if you're going to do that, then remake Day of the Triffids. But you damn well better treat it with the respect it deserves. The plot was so thin I almost missed it as it evaporated in to the air.
The whole movie in one sentence: Nature seeks revenge, Marky Mark and hot chick attempt to outrun, will Planet Earth learn the lesson? That's it.
The only good thing about it was the Cello score.
And let's not forget the token crazy old lady who lives alone in the middle of nowhere, but even she ends up walking backwards. And whats with that? What's the freakin walkin backwards got to do with it? This had rip offs from Psycho to Doctor Who... And thats sad, when you have to rip off Doctor Who.
There was nothing there for any of these actors to work with, everything about this movie sucked. Hard.
I'm going to watch 'Shutter' now, and i will probably give it 7 out of 10 cause of how bad 'The Happening' was.
The Happening. Why not call it 'Oh, the scary Plants come get us Movie'. Are there any plants in New York anyway, wouldn't it have started where the was more flora? At least there wasn't an awkward sex scene.
Man, it all just sucked so bad.