You feel like you're not watching the end of the world but the end of a career.
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06/13/08
The Happening (2008)
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Reviews Counted:169
Fresh:31
Rotten:138
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: The Happening begins with promise, but unfortunately descends into an incoherent and unconvincing trifle.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $64,384,941
Synopsis: M. Night Shyamalan directs this thriller about a science teacher (Mark Wahlberg) who tries to escape with his wife and friend's daughter after an apocalyptic event. THE HAPPENING costars Zooey... [More]
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Betty Buckley
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Reviews for The Happening
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Shyamalan wants the rustling of wind through greenery to evoke the same shudders in The Happening that the gathering of birds did in Hitchcock's The Birds
06/13/08
The greatest excuse yet to get that anti-M. Night petition started. The last thing we want is a future of Shyamalan films with the knowledge that we all could have done something sooner.
06/13/08
Shyamalan crafts a somewhat chilling cautionary tale; it just might have been more chilling if he had been a little less cautious.
06/13/08
M. Night Shyamalan has morphed from "the next Spielberg" to a punching bag for critics and audiences alike. The Happening reminds us why.
06/13/08
Shyamalan's latest film is the first in a long time that I can't defend.
06/13/08
If what audiences are looking for is a thrill ride, or even a pervasive eeriness, The Happening's just not happening.
06/13/08
The Happening features an effectively stylized physical environment: rarely have clouds drifting overhead and wind blowing through trees and a sunny day been filmed so ominously.
06/13/08
The Happening is a film of such shockingly appalling writing, dreadful acting and ham-fisted, ungainly execution that it plays better as a comedy than the thriller it was meant to be.
06/13/08
An impressive thriller which acknowledges the mystery that lies behind the marvels and the terrors of the natural world.
06/13/08
Bad and weird.
06/13/08
If you have seen the trailers online or on T.V., you can just save your money and wait for the rental on this one. All of the best moments are in the promos.
06/13/08
Nothing happens. Shyamalan has finally taken an ax to his Golden Goose.
06/12/08
Minor Shyamalan, but still well worth seeing.
06/12/08
Suicide bland.
06/12/08
The Happening quickly deteriorates into the worst movie of M. Night Shyamalan's career... and that's saying something.
06/12/08
The actors try and fail to look terrified at things that simply aren't that terrifying to look at, unless you are one of those people who considers "Days of Heaven" to be a relentless excursion in gut-wrenching horror.
06/12/08
But here's the real shocker, the statement that will blow all of your minds... this is one movie that you will be hoping for a twist ending!
06/12/08
M. Night Shyamalan is one of the most talented film-makers working today. But he seems to be running out of ideas.
06/12/08
one of the worst attempts at end-of-the-world ominousness since the Robot Holocaust battled the Ninja Apocalypse
06/12/08
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