A very ticked-off mother nature!

Rating: 5/10 (16 June 2008)

I usually never listen to what critics say because they bitch about everything and will always find fault with every movie in some way. I never go to a movie with high expectations anyways.I will admit this movie didn't have the greatest script but it did have some nice visuals and some disturbing and creepy scenes.One scene that creep ed me out was when the one group of people trying to escape came across a bunch of dead bodies hanging off telephone pulls or trees or something like that.It was so startling because it seemed so real,and the loud sudden eerie background music made you jump. I didn't like the b-rated sounding score in the first part of the film,it was horrible.The acting by most was OK but not great. Zooey Deschanel who played Alma Moore was awful! She was very stale and showed no emotion or reaction to anything and was very uninteresting.She is the reason I can't give this movie a higher rating.She had no chemistry with any of the other actors,and at times seemed like she couldn't deliver her lines.Just because she was born into a show biz family doesn't mean she has any talent,it just means she has an advantage.Mark Wahlberg who played her husband Elliot and Ashlyn Sanchez who played the little girl Jess were great, and they worked well together.The scene with Betty Buckley as the crazy old woman was a little strange but added excitement.And her demise was very unexpected.As for the plot, there were some that thought the Government was involved in what happened to the North East section of the U.S. in the movie while others thought the villain was an angry Mother Nature who decides to wreak havoc on large groups of humans by spreading a deadly plant toxin that makes people commit suicide whenever the wind shifts.The story may be a bit over the top and not very believable, but it was a fun movie for me to watch.It reminded me of a long episode of the Twilight Zone.