Blame it on the Marketing

Rating: 7/10 (16 June 2008)

This movie's bad reviews are in part due to the marketing approach. Marketing of this guy's films always push towards horror. Not sure why that is when only one of his movies can actually be called a horror film (The Sixth Sense.) People go in expecting scares and a shocker of an ending.'The Happening' is NOT a horror movie and there is no shocking ending. If anything the movie is more along the lines of 'The Birds' in that is slow paced, character driven, and there is never really any hard fast reason the tragic events happen.
It is not the best movie ever made but it held my attention and made me think a little as it moved along. I liked it but I am not buying the DVD. There ya have it.