Like watching Grass grow – a shymal pardon, shamble of a movie.

Rating: 3/10 (4 April 2012)

Right, The Sixth Sense" was an OK movie – entertaining, had a clever twist in the end but generally overrated. Same goes for "Unbreakable": an alright film which would have benefited from a director who's knowledgeable in the field of comic book adaptations (to mind comes Zack Snyder or Christopher Nolan". There was a reason I didn't walk out on "Signs": they were showing it onboard an airplane, during mid-flight.
Then came "The Village" which, despite all the harsh critiques it received, still has elements of cinematic magic, making it (similar to Tim Burton's "Big Fish") an on screen-fairy tale. "The Lady in the Water" shattered all hopes of repeating this magic; it being one of the most pretentiously self-important film I've ever seen – the only film I've ever given one point (just because there is no 0 points on IMDb).
Naturally, I was more than a little suspect when I slid "The Happening" into the DVD-player and was not disappointed: I had expected that it would be crap.
What speaks for "The Happening"? The soundtrack and, if gore is your thing and you're into films like "Final Destination" or "Saw", a few nasty, imaginative death-scenes.
Otherwise gifted actors, wasted like rotting hay. Dialogues that will make your toes curl and a storyline so hackneyed, it often makes you wonder: "Is this a joke?" (It wasn't a particularly funny joke though, since I paid good money to see this film). "The Happening" suffers from the same type of cancer that has killed (most) of above mentioned films, and the name of the cancer is M. Night Shyamalan. Perhaps the director would have turned out a half-decent filmmaker one day, had he not been poisoned by believing his own hype. Perhaps we shouldn't blame the young director but rather the studio-executives and producers, who may have said something cringe worthy along the lines: "Yeah, this is good stuff", giving it green light. I wish the director all the best for the future and that he may finally conquer a market that would really appreciate his works –Bollywood cinema is full of colours and ripe with symbolism.
I didn't bother watching Shyamalans "Avatar" but I heard it was pretty bad; No big surprises there either. Will I go and watch "After Earth"? That really depends on what they're willing to pay me.
3 points from 10: one for the score, one for the lawnmower scene (which made me laugh, though I believe that was unintentionally) and one for  well, the sun is shining and I'm in a particularly giving mood.