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The Happening
The twist is even more mind bogglingly cheesy than some of the stuff in Lady in the Water
Review by Sirus
A New York school teacher named Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) is in the middle of teaching his class when he is pulled out of the classroom by the Vice Principal. He is led to a room full of teachers where they are told that the children need to leave school because there is a major terrorist attack on Central Park and everyone needs to leave the area. He meets up with a fellow teacher named Julian who has been talking to his mother and wants his family and Elliot’s family to go to stay with Julian’s mom for a while where they believe it will be safe. When they get on the train, the conductors lose contact with the outside world and everyone is on the move to try and get to a safe place where whatever is happening will not affect them.
Mark Wahlberg gives a great performance that is vastly different from the other roles I have seen him in previously. The music, composed by James Newton Howard, is fantastic and serves to set the moods in tense scenes thanks to its heavily string centric orchestral sound. Other than that, I don’t have much good to say about it. I am not sure if the movie is attempting to be a horror movie or a thriller but it comes off as neither. There is very little tension through most of the movie with the exception of one or two scenes. There is a small amount of gore but it looks worse than a lot of low budget gore from the 80s and doesn’t have any gross out factor at all. At least it isn’t over-used. The dialogue in the movie is so bad that I found myself laughing numerous times at parts that were obviously not supposed to be funny. The movie also has tons of continuity issues between scenes that are extremely obvious and detract from the experience. I enjoyed most of the M Night Shyamalan movies I saw before The Happening but The Happening is easily the worst of them all and one of the worst movies I’ve seen all year. The twist is even more mind bogglingly cheesy than some of the stuff in Lady in the Water. Only the most die hard M Night Shyamalan fan should go see The Happening but expectations should be kept super low.
The twist is even more mind bogglingly cheesy than some of the stuff in Lady in the Water
Review by Sirus
A New York school teacher named Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) is in the middle of teaching his class when he is pulled out of the classroom by the Vice Principal. He is led to a room full of teachers where they are told that the children need to leave school because there is a major terrorist attack on Central Park and everyone needs to leave the area. He meets up with a fellow teacher named Julian who has been talking to his mother and wants his family and Elliot’s family to go to stay with Julian’s mom for a while where they believe it will be safe. When they get on the train, the conductors lose contact with the outside world and everyone is on the move to try and get to a safe place where whatever is happening will not affect them.
Mark Wahlberg gives a great performance that is vastly different from the other roles I have seen him in previously. The music, composed by James Newton Howard, is fantastic and serves to set the moods in tense scenes thanks to its heavily string centric orchestral sound. Other than that, I don’t have much good to say about it. I am not sure if the movie is attempting to be a horror movie or a thriller but it comes off as neither. There is very little tension through most of the movie with the exception of one or two scenes. There is a small amount of gore but it looks worse than a lot of low budget gore from the 80s and doesn’t have any gross out factor at all. At least it isn’t over-used. The dialogue in the movie is so bad that I found myself laughing numerous times at parts that were obviously not supposed to be funny. The movie also has tons of continuity issues between scenes that are extremely obvious and detract from the experience. I enjoyed most of the M Night Shyamalan movies I saw before The Happening but The Happening is easily the worst of them all and one of the worst movies I’ve seen all year. The twist is even more mind bogglingly cheesy than some of the stuff in Lady in the Water. Only the most die hard M Night Shyamalan fan should go see The Happening but expectations should be kept super low.
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