I "Happened" to fall for another terrible M. Night Shymalan film

Rating: 4/10 (13 June 2008)

I just watched an early showing of this movie at my local theatre and paid $5 instead of going last night to the midnight showing and paying roughly double that and I couldn't be happier. I'm only happy about the fact that I saved myself $5. This movie was awful! I want to like this director, but he has lost it in my opinion. His past three movies have all been terrible! The village was stupid. Lady in the Water was weak. This one takes the cake, though. The only reason I gave this movie any rating at all was for two reasons. When the chick stabs herself in the throat, that was badass. Also, Mark Wahlberg was funny in the movie. It may as well have been a comedy. All they did was promote the gore and the fact that Shymalan had never went hard-core enough to get an R rating. It didn't matter. This movie was terrible. Once is a aberration. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a pattern.