Friday, June 13, 2008

The Happening

The Happening..... The Happening.....

a movie with so much promise...I went into the movie with so much anticipation despite reading the negative reviews (I usually never allow reviews to cloud my decision to watch a movie). This time the review was spot on.

Mark Wahlberg scored an Oscar nomination last year with The Departed. He sure ain't getting anything from this movie...The whole cast just bombed with the poor direction and weird acting. They just didn't seem to be connecting with the audience. Acting aside, the backbone of the movie was pretty original. M. Night Shyamalan was able to bring the suspense and thrill into this like all his other movies. Climax was reached but never expounded. While I was waiting for the big ending to come, it came. But it came with a big disappointment. If you thought Signs was bad with the alien ending, or The Village was bad with the there is no monster ending, I would sincerely challenge you to watch this to find out how anti climatic a movie ending can be.

All in all bashing aside, it makes a good popcorn movie, everything was decent until the ending where it mattered the most. M. Night Shyamalan is truly losing the reputation he is getting after the strings of flops and maybe becoming what we call a One Hit Wonder with The Sixth Sense.