Be aware of what is Happening...

Rating: 7/10 (2 July 2010)

Apparently, according to sources here on IMDb and on some other motion picture review sites, I am in a minority.
I liked The Happening and for the life of me I cannot explain why.
The cinematography was superb, the pace just right and the acting sublime.
Yes, it is a very good film but it is not a truly great film so I gave it 7/10 stars.
Mark Wahlberg does not fail to impress once again. I'm just a little concerned that he may become typecast in this type of role, yet he is totally believable.
Zooey Deschanel emanates emotion as her life appears to fall apart around her. There are times when I genuinely feel for her character Alma. She is being overwhelmed by what is happening in the world she inhabits and she is already tied up in guilty little secrets she has kept from her husband.
As for the other characters... well, it's not really about them, is it? It's about Elliott and Alma.
And as for the plot? When the cause was first put forward, I felt a shiver down my back.
As much as many people are writing off this storyline as too far fetched, even for Sci-Fi, I find it totally plausible and therefore very, disturbing.
There is a lot of screaming in places, but there is a lot of calm as well. Just try not to read the calm as 'nothing happening'. It's a mass calm that could only really come about as the people realise the enormity of the situation and how impotent they are to stop it.