not surprised...

Rating: 2/10 (5 July 2008)

Okay first off, i can never listen to reviews sure i like reading them and seeing other peoples opinions and what not but i never listen to them because i like to find out for myself. I should of listened to the reviews on this one though, the people weren't lying "The Happening" is horrible absolutely horrible. I've always liked M. Nights movies (the sixth sense, unbreakable, Signs) were all great, the village was eh alright, but after that movie things got bad but for some reason his movies get me curious so it draws me in to see it which is why i saw this movie, now with his first R rated film im even more curious.
Heres what i thought was wrong with this movie...(i wont spoil anything for anyone) the opening sequence was flat, it just STARTS and the acting done by the people who are not "infected" show no emotion of panic or fear. Then there's Mark Wahlberg, i thought he was going to save this film because he is up there as one of my favorite actors and boy was i wrong, sure he plays a teacher in the movie and isn't some tough bad ass like he is in previous films but man oh man does he play the biggest wimp in the world it gotten to the point where i wanted him to get out of the scene, i was embarrassed for him. pretty much in my eyes the acting was just awful, i gave it a 2 out of 10 because there's one scene that kept my attention.
after the movie was done i started thinking, making he wrote this movie as a joke because it was so bad...i mean how can you make a good movie about mass suicide?