Shyamalan's Disaster !

Rating: 3/10 (30 August 2009)

M Night Shyamalan is known for making slow moving dark masterpieces like The Sixth Sense, Signs & Unbreakable. His movies "The Village" & "Lady in the Water" were pretty average ones. But with "The Happening" we are watching Shyamalan's worst movie till date. I dunno whether he was on a tight budget or what, but he has completely messed up this time.
The first 30 minutes of this flick were pretty descent if not good. Things were moving in an orderly fashion. We could sense that the virus is spreading and is slowly and slowly becoming airborne. We could see the remaining residents running away from the infected zones. But what follows in the next 60 minutes is something very disappointing, something for which you won't have thought while paying for your tickets. The director completely loses his grip on the narration and starts to deviate towards various alternatives instead of concentrating on the way the things were being described before. The part in which the couple and the child reach the house of an old woman was completely out of senses. It was put in an abrupt manner in the best part of the climax. The ending of the movie makes no sense at all for at the least Shyamalan fans.
If you are a hardcore Shyamalan fan don't watch The Happening (even if you come across any positive review). You will go insane and scratch your head at the credits "What the hell was that?" Let this film die in peace.