Oh, no! This is not happening!

Rating: 1/10 (13 June 2008)

Well folks,
I don't know exactly how to start talking about The Happening. In fact, I don't even know if I should start writing about something so BAD. However, I guess I'm gonna do it, just to let you know how wrong I was when I thought I'd enjoy it.
I really don't know what is HAPPENING with director M. Night Shayamalan these last years, but he definitely seems to be messing around with audiences or, if not, proving us all how urgently he needs to improve his writing/directing skills. I can recall "THE VILLAGE" and "THE LADY OF THE WATER" which, in my opinion, were ENTIRELY GARBAGE. And now comes another rubbish masterpiece, with a new "label" and nice presentation, but with the same hollow plot as the past ones.
In the beginning, The Happening seemed somehow promising, but in the very next minutes I noticed something wrong about it. The characters were empty, boring, unstyled and raw. Actings were unnatural, theatrical and very, very poor. Filming sequences were also too bad, giving me a perfect feeling of a low budget movie done just to bring easy money from all those out there who normally love a little bit of nonsense mystery or suspense.
Finally, in regards to the story, I think that The Happening is also pretty bad. In fact, I risk myself to say that this movie has no story at all. Shayamalan has just lead us (and probably himself too) to a promising story with no end or pre-thought sequences, resulting in a very random plot with stupid scenes, characters and inconsistencies.
If I had to describe this movie in a very short sentence, I'd say it is BAD, AMATEUR-LIKE and BORING. During the play time I was always hoping to see the credits part, but the movie kept going on to massacre me.
Anyway, now one thing is certain from now on: I won't see another Shayamalan's movie for the next 100 years! That's for sure!