"Run for your lives (from this movie)"The Happening (2008): here is the name of the new creation of M. Night Shyamalan. Remember the name of this movie, so you won’t lose your time watching it.
After writing, directing and producing the fantastic The Sixth Sense (1999), Shyamalan got a deserved respect. “Oh, this man is a genius; let him do what he wants.” But movie after movie (except for the good The Village), Shyamalan disappoints.
This The Happening is the worst. Probably Shyamalan is surrounded only by fans and people with no opinion, or someone would tell him “this won’t work”. And that’s the problem of the movie: it doesn’t work at all.
A poor idea (the plants decide to kill the humans), a lack of any kind of working suspense, several scenes of bad taste and no twist in the end (a trademark of the author): it’s the reunion of the worst Shyamalan you can’t find around. And it leads to nothing.
Shyamalan must be desperate to make a movie like this. And many people (including myself) won’t believe him anymore.
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