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The Happening
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister?
Release : | 2008 |
Rating : | 5 |
Studio : | 20th Century Fox, Spyglass Entertainment, Dune Entertainment, |
Crew : | Art Department Coordinator, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Mark Wahlberg Zooey Deschanel John Leguizamo Ashlyn Sanchez Betty Buckley |
Genre : | Thriller Science Fiction |
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Best movie of this year hands down!
Just what I expected
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
This takes the "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" concept to a whole new level. DOWN to a whole new level, that is. Who said the age of turkeys was over? I wish I could give this rubbish a negative amount of stars.
This movie is hilarious. It is actually so bad, its good. The acting is absolutely dreadful! Especially from Zooey Deschanel! M. Night Shaymalan Has an extremely varied career as a director!He has made two amazing movies (the sixth sense, and signs), as well as three OK movies (split, the village, and the visit), and three absolutely horrible movies (the happening, the last airbender, and after earth). I think this is very disappointing, since we saw in his early career that he really can make amazing movies with signs and the sixth sense, then he come with movies like the last airbender which is widely regarded as one of the worst movies of all time!Lets go back to this movie! This movie has so many extremely stupid and dull moments that makes me laugh so hard! One example is when some of the survivors find bodies hanging while driving on a road, and after we see this, a girl in the car screams and freaks out so hard! Even though she obviously wouldve seen this before we saw the bodies hanging!Just watch it! its actually so bad its worth watching. You will laugh so hard!!
Warning! Warning! Film turd ahead! Wow, you just can't imagine anything this bad coming from the guy who directed "The Sixth Sense". IMDb only allows 1000 words for a review. I'm going to try to keep this under 50. You have to start with the moronic script; and then end there. I haven't heard dialogue this cringe worthy since, well, ever in my life. Betty Buckley as Mrs. Jones... smashing her bloody face through a window, twice... no words. The only thing that kept me watching this giant pant load was the fast forward button and enough curiosity about whether or not it could continue to worsen. It did.
That is the explanation for this movie to exist. It's one of Shyamalan strangest movies, and that's not exactly a very good thing.A mysterious chemical virus or something like that makes the people that is affected to commit suicide. Here are involved a science teacher, Elliot (Mark Wahlberg), his wife Alma (Zoey Deschannel) and a friend of them (John Leguizamo). The story started pretty well and for the first 40 minutes or so it was interesting and despite some very stupid things of the script and some average acting it was good. But then they start trying to run away from the wind and the movie started to fall down and the last ten minutes were just awful (sad ending but no, it's a happy ending, no, wait, it's a bad ending. What's that?) The logic for explaining the virus that is a mystery of the nature and we'll never understand it and that's it. Probably Shyamalan didn't knew how to end the story and how to give it a reasonable explanation and came up with this. The actors were at parts good, specially the main three, but at other parts were bad acting. (Mark Wahlberg talking to a plastic plant like it was going to answer him...) Zooey Deschannel has some good moments and she is beautiful, but a pretty face don'd make an actuation good. And well, all the extras were just useless. Also, was it necessary to add all the disturbing and graphic deaths? Some of you may like it but I found it at parts funny and at parts disgusting, but no serious.On the good side I have to say that Shyamalan is still able to create tension and give the movie the feeling it needs by the camera work he is used to (despite here being less noticeable). And also the score by James Newton Howard, not as good as in other Shyamalan moments but still provides some very good moments.In general this is a very entertaining and interesting movie until it reaches the hour of duration or so, where it falls down a lot, but I'm pretty sure that if you're a Shyamalan fan you will enjoy it at most of it.