Bee Aware

Rating: 1/10 (1 December 2012)

I vowed never again to an M. Night Shyamalan movie after being sorely disappointed in Signs and then hating life after The Village, so I skipped all together Lady in the Water. However, I broke my promise one night: My roommate had this film and I thought, just for a good laugh, I will watch The Happening. And boy did I laugh. Hard. But that was just for the first half of the feature. Towards the middle, it got so incredibly bad, and then worse, I was still in tears, but not from laughing any more. I will keep my promise from here on, I swear. I heard M. Night once compared himself to Hitchcock. That should've been the biggest clue this guy hasn't got one. Hitchcock was never this bad, never were his features as drawn out to the max as M. Night's are, never this unimaginative. Does he seriously think close ups (and there are too many to count in this movie) are scary or suspenseful? Did he seriously tell his cast to cease from acting? Did he seriously write the dialogue? Did he seriously set out to make a serious B-Movie? SPOILER ALERT – Oh, and when you find out the "secret" in this one, it generates the biggest laughs – if you're still laughing by that point. The trees talk with the grass who pass the word to the flowers and so forth, to DESTROY ALL HUMANS! Really? Seriously? I'm glad I didn't see this in theatres; my laughing out loud probably would've bothered a few (if that many) other viewers.