THE HAPPENING - review
I'm a huge M. Night Shyamalan fan. HUGE. I was very excited to see this movie, and this is how I felt when it was over...
"ummm.... What?"
The first 30 minutes are spent watching person after person kill themselves and the rest of the movie is spent on menacing close-ups of the trees blowing in the wind and smatterings of misplaced humor. This movie (aside from it's glaringly obvious global-warming message) was completely random and without depth. Mark Wahlberg has one expression on his face the whole time and kind of talks like a sissy-boy throughout the movie. It was nice to see Zooey Deschanel play something besides a weirdo (delightful weirdo though she often may be) and I thought she carried her role off well despite the ridiculousness of the story. John Leguizamo had the most stand-out performance in the film and he made me want to go see more of his movies now, simply because he's in them.
This movie is... it's so ludicrous, I don't even know what to say. I guess I could see if he was going for a Hitchcock "The Birds" feel, but for some reason it just didn't come out that way. Mr. Shyamalan, if your reading, please stick to spiritually themes films instead of politically themed. Please.
Unlike all my friends I did not like this movie. I felt there was no real storyline, I felt like I was waiting for something that never came . It became incredibly boring incredibly fast. The only thing I liked about it was that afterwards me and my friends had a long conversation about what we would do if the world would end.
gbtrd said...
August 12, 2008 9:35 PM
OH I really really did not like this movie, It was one of those movies where it just gets so boring and with out noticing your totally thinking about something else. After about 45 minutes I realized I was not even watching it, i was sitting in the movie theater texting. It reminded me how i felt when i tried to watch Failure To Launch, I will never be able to watch that whole movie.
None of my friends (Guy or Girl)liked it either.
Alexis said...
September 1, 2008 3:30 PM