Only Hollywood ;)

Rating: 4/10 (10 July 2008)

Man I was looking forward to this movie so incredible much! I thought: M.Night as the director and freaking Mark "Marky Mark" Wahlberg in the lead role, I mean - I'ts a given combination! BUT unfortunately this movie took me by storm the first 9 maybe 10 minutes, and there after it really stunk! Totally predictable, very bad acting (even from Mark Wahlberg), a lot of clichés and the worst part was the whole story. Okay, I really do admit the plot to be original but I've seen M.Night Shyamalan write ten times better ones! One other, very disturbing thing was that almost every "mature" character was using words like "chill" and other words from the streets... WHY? It isn't realistic, God damn it! Basically NOTHING in this movie is realistic and not even the movie itself was filmed particularly good. No great looking angels, no cool special effects (except for the wind flying through some grass, which even I can do in my films) and I can go on like this for days, giving this movie constructive criticism but if I go over to some positive criticism I'll give M.Night some credit for making an original idea, thinking about the world's environment AND making this movie pretty descent after all, with only $60,000,000 (normally today a movie costs about $100,000,000).
M.Night Shyamalan. If you read this (most likely not, but anyway): Keep the good work up and try shooting in some exclusive and fresh angles! One thing I would have done with the ending is when Elliot Moore walks over to Alma Moore, at the end, I would have rewind the movie back to its very beginning and then I would have fade in the words "IT'S HAPPENING" and then I would have fade out and fade in to "THE HAPPENING" - THE END =)