how can you write a spoiler for a movie with no suspense

Rating: 2/10 (15 November 2008)

This is a self-indulgent, poorly written, poorly written, and badly acted movie. It is barely worth a $1 rental from the local "Red Box". A literature professor of mine once said that "everyone has a story inside them that is worth telling - some writers only have the one and they tell that story again and again - to be able to tell other stories takes genius". Night is no genius - though he evidently thinks he is. The story is a hot mess - the people don't act like people - for instance, the "happening" is supposed to be a plague of suicides driven by some kind of neurotoxins emitted by plants yet at the end of the movie there is an epilogue that takes place 3 months after the epidemic of suicides - and nothing has changed. In every scene where the "happening" occurs everyone kills themselves - so how did the cities of the northeast recover any semblance of order? This is only one of the many absurd and unsatisfying elements in this hot mess of a movie.