Can a natural given talent vanish completely ?

Rating: 2/10 (13 June 2008)

After watching "The happening" tonight i'm afraid that the answer must be "YES". As a warning: This film is a total waste of time. The story is absolute nonsense. The only thing to it are a few mildly shocking scenes, but that's surely not enough to make up 90 Minutes of filming. The acting is terrible too, some scenes are even - unwillingly - funny ( for example Marky Mark talking to a rubber plant ). The only bright spot is John Leguizamos performance, but he appears only in a few scenes. After Shyamalans marvelous films "The sixth sense", "Unbreakable" and in my opinion even "The Village" and "Signs" it becomes obvious that Shyamalans days are over even before he turns 40... "Lady in the water" could have been a temporarily blackout in his career ( even though LITW has still a better script than "The happening" ), but this film absolutely marks the pitiful end to his career as a writer and director. I had really hoped for another ingenious movie from Shyamalan, but alas, all my hopes were destroyed by this piece of absolute rubbish. Please understand one star of my voting as a mere gesture of respect to his former work and the other as a tribute to John Leguizamos appearance.