Shyamalan leads and leaves us on a new path

Rating: 5/10 (11 June 2008)

Alright, I'll say that M. Night Shyamalan is a good filmmaker. He's brilliant with punctuation and tension, and the cinematography is beautiful. In the end he tells very human stories, albeit with bizarre or unusual circumstances.
But The Happening is no new Sixth Sense. He takes a bit of a new route this time with his first R-rated film - but if you're looking to see brutal death and mayhem, there isn't enough of that here to justify a ticket purchase.
It's the smaller moments that count here, and that's where a whole world of emotion is told in just a brief moment (I don't want to give it away, but I'm sure you can spot it when you see the film). But if only the whole sum left us with as much emotion as those little moments, this would've been a far better movie.