The Happening - still waiting for it to happen

Rating: 2/10 (23 June 2008)

Had high hopes for this film, Mark Wahlberg etc etc. But on no. The dialogue was disjointed from the start, the gestures were out of synch with the words, and the sensitive friend sticking his nose in did not add to the tension, it dissipated it into a pointless emotional dead end. The cause of the deaths was obvious to all but the cast so the plot was a farce from the very beginning.
The MP private was a stereotype of a cliché, as were the Nebraska red necks, and so on and so. And the sub text, the plants are getting their own back, reclaiming the planet? Oh my, didn't see that coming.
A typical M Night performance. All promise and no substance or direction, no credible scripting and a random pregnancy at the very end. A complete waste of everyones time.