The world would be better without humans...

Rating: 4/10 (4 July 2008)

This movie was a letdown in many ways. I like Shyamalan's earlier movies, and I like Wahlberg's acting in his other films. I didn't much care for this movie because it seemed like something people throw together when it doesn't matter how it turns out, like fixing dinner for your mother-in-law. Who cares if it is green beans and spinach, it's food and constitutes dinner. The movie is a decidedly B-movie but I don't think it was intended as such like some of the other reviews I have read. The plot is silly and the ending is a re-iteration of some popular books among liberals regarding how the Earth might some day rise up and start killing human kind for being the way we are. No one has ever written a book about the Earth killing polar bears or grub worms for being the way they are, only humans. I wish people who keep telling us how much better off the Earth would be without humans would leave the Earth to set an example and prove their point. We are human, after all, and have just as much right on this planet as any other life form. Nobody bashes lions for eating baby Cheetahs any time they run across one because that's what lions do. Humans build things, that's what we do. If you don't like that move to the Moon, there are no humans there yet, although it is warmer now than 10 years ago just like the Earth. I guess that's our fault as well and should be officially classified as human-driven lunar warming.
I wish Hollywood would stop trying to tell people how to live and produce entertainment like they used to. This movie isn't terrible, it is completely watchable, but the acting seems somewhat forced and not believable at all for many of the characters. Be warned that this movie has a definite liberal slant regarding how bad we humans are and how the Earth might one day rise up and start killing us. What is it about Hollywood liberals and telling everyone how to live their life?