Review Rewind: The Happening (2008)

(They looked on in despair as the 'Plants' made their advance)

Cast: Mark Wahlberg & Zooey Deschanel

Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan

Screenplay by: M. Night Shyamalan

Plot:

The east coast of the United States believes it is under a biological terrorist attack after a string of grisly suicides break out.

Verdict:

You know theirs no saving a movie when this happens. "It's plastic... I'm talking to a plastic plant." Mark Wahlberg looking completely perplexed, must have loved this scene but being serious for a second - something that The Happening, the sixth film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, never seems to be - it's not just Wahlberg but everybody involved here, walking around with the same baffled look pasted across there face. So could it be the wind that's seemingly chasing them, perhaps? Could it be the realisation that plants, yes frigging plants are possibly responsible for the 'event' that is happening, maybe? Could it be the increasingly ingenious ways people are coming up with to commit suicide, perhaps? Could it even be that crazy old lady who turns up for no apparent reason, possibly? All could it just be the fact that all this actually came from the same guy who made The Sixth Sense... definitely.

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