Nothing Happens.

Rating: 3/10 (25 June 2015)

The Happening (2008): Dir: M. Night Shyamalan / Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez, Betty Buckley: Just when you thought M. Night Shyamalan couldn't get any worse than Lady in the Water, he manages to manufacture this happening piece of sh*t. What happened to the director who made The Sixth Sense and Signs? Was he abducted by one of his own space beings? This is a lame ass thriller about unexplained events. Starts out promising as people begin to commit suicide due to what's believed to be a controlling toxic substance. Mark Wahlberg plays a science teacher who tries to figure it all out but spends most of the film running from place to place with his wife while gruesome acts occur randomly. Zooey Deschanel plays his wife who is unexplainably clueless. John Leguizamo is featured as another teacher, as well as Ashlyn Sanchez as his speechless daughter. One must be speechless when you audition for a film and get thrust into this crap. Betty Buckley plays an elderly woman who obviously hasn't kept up on her medicine after all the mumbo jumbo she belts out. One could say that this contrived idiotic farce is a reference to the rapture but for all the laughs being played out through suicide, it leaves the impression that no one was on the ball when this hit pre-production. One must wonder what's happening with M. Night Shyamalan. Score: 3 / 10