What happened to the happening?

Rating: 4/10 (6 July 2008)

I think it is safe to say that like many film goers I was impressed with M. Night Shyamalan's debut movie "the sixth sense". It was a relief to find that a new director had created a refreshing style of story telling which established his signature in that craft. Unfortunately like many others, I have noticed that there has been an increasing lack of quality in the movies that were released one after another following his debut movie. The happening was no exception, for the most part it was reduced to the very bare minimum of film cinema if not less.
The very first thirty minutes did a decent job with establishing what the premise of the story was and as the movie progressed, unfortunately the story, characters and turning points did not.
I was watching the movie anticipating that the main characters would undergo a more devastating scenario in each new environment they had come across on as well as seeing their personal struggle to survive the epidemic. The movie instead just continued to drag on inviting new characters that died moments later and had no relevance to the story. The cause of the epidemic was even less logical by hiding it with theories that made no sense and eventually had no explanation by the time the movie ended. It pretty much just happened.
So what happened to the happening....absolutely NOTHING.