What the f*** was that?! M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening is utter garbage from start to finish. When a mysterious virus leads people to start killing themselves, a teacher and his wife flee the city and attempt to find safety. Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel are horribly miscast and give terrible performances. But the real problem is the script, which is awful and made worse by the overly serious and preachy tone. Still, some of the imagery is quite disturbing and delivers some frightful chills. Yet the ridiculousness of the plot undoes all of that and prevents the film from gaining any momentum. Poorly made and ill-conceived, The Happening is unbelievably bad.
Shout by Dann MichalskiBlockedParent2021-10-31T19:00:07Z
What the f*** was that?! M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening is utter garbage from start to finish. When a mysterious virus leads people to start killing themselves, a teacher and his wife flee the city and attempt to find safety. Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel are horribly miscast and give terrible performances. But the real problem is the script, which is awful and made worse by the overly serious and preachy tone. Still, some of the imagery is quite disturbing and delivers some frightful chills. Yet the ridiculousness of the plot undoes all of that and prevents the film from gaining any momentum. Poorly made and ill-conceived, The Happening is unbelievably bad.