| Posted by: Strider at June 20, 2008, 6:26 pm | | Topic: The Happening Forum: JoBlo | | The Happening - 3/10 or *1/2/***** stars After the one-two punch that was 1999's The Sixth Sense and 2000's Unbreakable, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has been on a losing streak, and the streak continues with The Happening, quite possibly his worst film yet. Truthfully, there are moments of promise, but said moments are few and far between. The Happening, as a whole, is preposterous, laughable dreck. The screenplay is a mess, the acting is atrocious -- Mark Wahlberg most likely will follow his Oscar nomination in The Departed with a Razzie nomination for his amazingly unconvincing and dreadful performance as a science teacher here -- and the revelation of why the world seems to be ending and everyone is dying is not only predictable (Shyamalan gives it away too early) but it's also very stupid. If that's not bad enough, Shyamalan uses the ending to shove a boring, simplistic message down your throat and send you home with a saccharine overdose. The Happening is a bigger disaster than the one depicted on-screen. Note: James Newton Howard's wonderfully eerie score is the film's only positive. One of the best scores I've listened to this year, so far. Strider |
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