Was Al Gore the Director?

Rating: 1/10 (14 June 2008)

MAY CONTAIN PLOT ENDING SPOILERS
The Happening started off extremely well. It immediately grabbed the viewer with the intense suicides in the park, etc. But honestly it ended so poorly it almost made ME want to kill myself. I saw this film because I felt that Mark Wahlberg could redeem Shyamalan's increasingly poor work... And I was wrong. Wahlberg is an incredible actor, but the best of the best could not save this film from flopping. The plot twists were original (at first) but the ending was predictable, even from the start. You're better off watching "An Inconvenient Truth," as it has the same message. The only thing that was salvageable from this film was the brief humor in the scenes with Wahlberg. Overall, I'd recommend you stay at home and watch HBO for free instead of spending $10.50 on The Happening. I walked out of the theatre in a bad mood after coming in with such high expectations, so if you like films that put you in a bad mood, then this movie is for you.