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M. Night Shyamalan is a brilliant writer/director who always manages to impress with his unique ideas or twists on previously attempted genres. For the record, my favorite two films of his were Unbreakable and The Village. That's exactly the case with his new movie too which however, I didn't really enjoy...The story is about an airborne toxin which causes those engulfed to kill themselves - possibly spread by trees and plants - and has been launched on the East Coast of America. A great story that fits perfectly today's worries about global warming as we are all witnessing how the mother nature is coming right back at us..."Ike" anybody???

A great story though ain't enough to produce an equally great movie... The Happening delivered no one-liners, no stand up acting from any particular actor/actress, and no real climax. It felt real. The characters reacted in a very human way, no heroes, the lines didn't feel scripted. It felt as though the person sitting next to me would react the same way. Amazingly realistic. Almost too realistic. BUT the acting was generally poor..The acting across the board is terrible. This is the worst movie I have ever seen Mark Wahlberg do. He talked to everybody in the movie as if they were seven years old for no apparent reason other than being a high school teacher...(By the way how many of you do you know that the actor Mark Wahlberg used to be the ultra funky rapper MarkyMark?????) The only good performance in the movie is given by John Leguizamo and he dies within the first forty five minutes..

More on the bad side: I like having no idea where the film is headed, and The Happening was a predictable joint. The plot was weak and at many times didn’t make much sense. We learn the “twist” in the first twenty minutes of the movie! There is no drama build up to the twist like a good suspense movie, and the twist itself doesn’t land in any way towards us the viewers.

The ONLY silver lining for this movie and probably the biggest reason to see it is the score. Although the suspense and story is terrible, the music is actually pretty great. Brilliant. Simply stunning. The music made the movie. Had the score not been as wonderful, the movie would not be worth seeing...

3 HATE CITIES!

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