Signs meets War of the Worlds, but no match

Rating: 6/10 (28 July 2008)

It was an interesting idea and interpretation, but it was a too long a movie to present a single idea. At least Day of the Trifids has had some action.
Short plot line: the plants are upset and are starting to kill people off. They panic, run, talk nonsense and scream a lot. Then they kill themselves. I really like Mark Wahlberg, but I think his performance was mediocre, something I would say about most other actors as well. What happened to John Leguizamo to get such a marginal role?
Bottom line: if Mel Brooks would have entrusted his daughter to Tom Cruise, while aliens would have chemically bombed the US as punishment from God for desecrating planet Earth, it would have been The Happening with a slightly larger budget, but without Tom Cruise's excellent acting from War of the Worlds.