The Horrible

Rating: 1/10 (22 July 2008)

This is a movie about nothing. There's no monsters, villains, fiends, suspense, atmosphere, acting or script. How a movie like this could cost $80 million, released by a major studio and given the green light by a supposedly tough team of producers and executives is a true mystery.
The first five minutes are compelling. Something is forcing thousands of NYC residents to kill themselves. Switch now to Mark Wahlberg who portrays a befuddled science teacher and he tells his class about the mystery of why bees are vanishing. Could this have something to do with the unknown power that's causing mass suicide.
Then we see Mark, his wife and friends fleeing the city on a train that suddenly stops because the engineer has killed himself. Then we see endless shots of plants and trees blowing in the wind. Is it the wind or the plants that's causing people to kill themselves? at one point, as a few survivors race away from the oncoming wind, Mark faces the camera and shouts: "Wait a minute! I'm trying to figure out what's happening?" The few people in my theater all cracked up. He voiced our confusion perfectly.
And then, we next see Mark and company happily back in NYC. Traffic flows, people shop and stroll along the sidewalks. But wait! What happened to all those dead corpses? Is the invisible killer gone? What was it?
This movie is a landmark in inept film-making and should have been shown on the Sci-Fi Channel--home to the cheesiest made-for-TV flicks to be found in the world.