Jump on bandwagon bus M. Night.

Rating: 1/10 (17 June 2008)

Here is the thing, and I think most of us agree... his best work, is The Sixth Sense... it's been down hill from there. As far as film is concerned. Personally my favorite M. Night movie was Unbreakable, just because I thought it was such a fresh look at superhuman abilities, tying it to comics. I could have taken or left The Village and I wasn't a fan of Lady in the Water. (Signs was good, but that was a love or hate movie I thought.) ---- Now, "The Happening" and it's funny, because 60 mins into this movie I said what the hell is "Happening." This is M. Night's lousy attempt to get on the Inconvienent Truth bus.
I love M. Night as a writer, but this is not a fresh idea. There was no twist. He actually made Mark Wahlberg look like a worse actor than he already is. This was junk. I knew the angle 15 minutes into this movie. Global Warming... wow... that's original. Other than the suicide scenes this was a whining rant, much like the guy on TV at the end of the film. Then cut to the "Happening" in Europe. Wow? really? let's confirm the guy on "CNN like news channel." Crap. This movie was crap. I don't mind Global Warming movies, if they are well thought out and have something behind them, but this had nothing... a moth story, and a fossil fuel story. Yaye.
The only two things I liked in this movie were the fact that it was short, and the fact that it was so bad that hopefully M. Night will sit down and rethink his line of writing, or quit doing it all together.