Why oh why oh why?

Rating: 1/10 (3 January 2009)

Why is M. Night Shyamalan still allowed to make movies? Does he think The Happening is worthy, creditable, notable, doable, seeable? I sat down really wanting to finally see a movie that had at least a scintilla of worth. Plot? What plot? Suspense? What suspense? Character development? Don't make me laugh. Dialogue? Script? Anything? No, no and no. Even the film score was yawningly predictable.
This film is so awful, I cannot find a place to start, so I won't. I wish film studios would exercise a bit more caution when allowing this kind of thing to happen. We have lapsed into such mediocrity in so many areas of the American culture... and this is an example of why.
M. Night Shyamalan, really now. These things are getting worse and worse. Please try and do something at least slightly dramatic, suspenseful, interesting. The Happening cannot get much lower than awful.