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A family is on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind--but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.
Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller and Politics/Religion Running Time: 1 hr. 31 min. Release Date: June 13th, 2008 (wide) MPAA Rating: R for violent and disturbing images.
I have to admit it was the worst M Night Shyamalan's movie I have ever seen. My girlfriend jumped or screamed at his other movies, but not this one.It is a sleeper all the way through. Nothing extra in this flick.
He said he would pull out all the stops, to make this a great movie, and it is a great sleep aid.
Here is what second opinion had to say about it:
The premise of M Night Shyamalan's latest paranormal thriller is no more bizarre than any other apocalypse fiction (Arthur Machen's The Terror is about butterflies for goodness' sake). If the film isn't viewed with hostility from the fade-in, it's an effective, mid-ranking genre picture. Mark Wahlberg isn't the strongest leading man, but the rest of the cast are fine, and its puzzled, panicky characters act in a more or less credible manner.
Shyamalan stages set-pieces, such as a chain of suicides, perfectly. Compared with, say, The Invasion (the Nicole Kidman remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers) or Michael Haneke's annoying Time of the Wolf, it's solid, acceptable work.
Yet it opened last week to near-universal derision in America and Britain, earning scornful reviews and (if one pays attention to such things) jeering, contemptuous internet postings (the critics, at least, had seen the film; many bloggers clearly had not).
It was obvious that the knives were out in a way they weren't for The Incredible Hulk. Shyamalan, whose "written, directed and produced by" credit suggests a smug public image, won critical and audience success in 1999 with The Sixth Sense, but his subsequent, similarly-toned films (with or without Twilight Zone kickers) have found decreasing favour, and there's a sense that we've just had enough of his films (and, more to the point, him).
His scripts are sometimes mawkish, sometimes pretentious, but he has a knack for genuine "jump" moments and whispered, intense conversations that raise a chill, and he mostly gets outstanding performances (The Happening has good work from Zooey Deschanel). It's a different style to the shrieking melodrama of competing sci-fi horror films like The Mist and The Ruins, but just as valid.
Part of Shyamalan's "crime" is being drawn to subject matter (alien invasion, mermaids, superheroes) many can't take seriously under any circumstances, just as newspapers once dismissed lowly cowboy pictures now hailed as classics. The Happening is not in the first rank of its genre, but it doesn't fall into the pits of sci-fi hell either. Its failings certainly annoyed me less than I Am Legend's hash of Richard Matheson's outstanding source novel or Speed Racer's message that paying attention in school is a waste of time and a woman's job is limited to making pancakes.
Some critics were still incensed by Shyamalan's previous film, Lady in the Water, in which he ill-advisedly included the character of a movie critic who gets eaten by a monster. He's an earnest film-maker whose weird streak of humour doesn't always work - a speech delivered by Wahlberg to a plastic plant just dies on screen - and he comes across personally as privileged, superior and faintly creepy (traits he's well aware of, since he has used them in his own "significant" cameo appearances in film).
Can it be a kind of racism that the Indian-born, Philadelphia-raised auteur is hammered for his apparent character (or funny name) rather more than, say, Quentin Tarantino
Dometheus Nash
it was an OK film...jst..well when they got killed at the start they wernt really shocked >< if someone you were with stabbed themselves in the neck you would do a little more than cassually look at them lol
I can't believe sometimes, how people tend to give real good movies like THE HAPPENING, alot of negative criticism, HAVE A negative perspective,negative outlook,negative opinions, negative overviews and negative reviews. "When its not one its the other". I think everybody's loosing their sense of imagination, cause this movie was a suspensive thrill-ride in my opinion, The best M Night Shaymillan has ever made, I could never get his name right DARN! So to each his own I guess,. After all at the end of the day negative criticism doesn't mean squat if the movie is still making money at the box office, and that's on the real TIP. NO OFFENSE Dometheus! OH WELL HAPPY MOVIES EVERYONE! ALIEN-10 SIGNING OUT!
A family is on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind--but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.
He said he would pull out all the stops, to make this a great movie, and it is a great sleep aid.
Here is what second opinion had to say about it:
The premise of M Night Shyamalan's latest paranormal thriller is no more bizarre than any other apocalypse fiction (Arthur Machen's The Terror is about butterflies for goodness' sake). If the film isn't viewed with hostility from the fade-in, it's an effective, mid-ranking genre picture. Mark Wahlberg isn't the strongest leading man, but the rest of the cast are fine, and its puzzled, panicky characters act in a more or less credible manner.
Shyamalan stages set-pieces, such as a chain of suicides, perfectly. Compared with, say, The Invasion (the Nicole Kidman remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers) or Michael Haneke's annoying Time of the Wolf, it's solid, acceptable work.
Yet it opened last week to near-universal derision in America and Britain, earning scornful reviews and (if one pays attention to such things) jeering, contemptuous internet postings (the critics, at least, had seen the film; many bloggers clearly had not).
It was obvious that the knives were out in a way they weren't for The Incredible Hulk. Shyamalan, whose "written, directed and produced by" credit suggests a smug public image, won critical and audience success in 1999 with The Sixth Sense, but his subsequent, similarly-toned films (with or without Twilight Zone kickers) have found decreasing favour, and there's a sense that we've just had enough of his films (and, more to the point, him).
His scripts are sometimes mawkish, sometimes pretentious, but he has a knack for genuine "jump" moments and whispered, intense conversations that raise a chill, and he mostly gets outstanding performances (The Happening has good work from Zooey Deschanel). It's a different style to the shrieking melodrama of competing sci-fi horror films like The Mist and The Ruins, but just as valid.
Part of Shyamalan's "crime" is being drawn to subject matter (alien invasion, mermaids, superheroes) many can't take seriously under any circumstances, just as newspapers once dismissed lowly cowboy pictures now hailed as classics. The Happening is not in the first rank of its genre, but it doesn't fall into the pits of sci-fi hell either. Its failings certainly annoyed me less than I Am Legend's hash of Richard Matheson's outstanding source novel or Speed Racer's message that paying attention in school is a waste of time and a woman's job is limited to making pancakes.
Some critics were still incensed by Shyamalan's previous film, Lady in the Water, in which he ill-advisedly included the character of a movie critic who gets eaten by a monster. He's an earnest film-maker whose weird streak of humour doesn't always work - a speech delivered by Wahlberg to a plastic plant just dies on screen - and he comes across personally as privileged, superior and faintly creepy (traits he's well aware of, since he has used them in his own "significant" cameo appearances in film).
Can it be a kind of racism that the Indian-born, Philadelphia-raised auteur is hammered for his apparent character (or funny name) rather more than, say, Quentin Tarantino
Dometheus Nash
A family is on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind--but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.
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