The Happening

2008 "We've sensed it. We've seen the signs. Now...it's happening."
5| 1h31m| R| en
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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?

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Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
Console best movie i've ever seen.
Dotbankey A lot of fun.
Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
tbecarey A complete waste of time, sadly. One of the most disjointed and incoherent screenplays ever written.
ncrossy1980 I feel obligated to warn every human on the planet to not waste an evening of their valuable time on this. I'm intentionally keeping this review short because I feel I've already lost enough of my life to this horrific train wreck of a video... I also refuse to refer to it as a movie. It is, by a long stretch, the single worst attempt at a movie I've seen on my 36 years on this planet. I made it all the way to the end out of pure fascination that this attempt at a movie was actually released to the public, and it left me wondering if there'll ever come a point where the public can sue directors for wasting significant periods of people's lives after deceptively coercing people into sitting through this filth with no warning of how dreadful it is. It's not even an opinion either, this attempt at a movie is factually awful in every respect. Please, I beg of you, only watch this if you wish to take on a new low in your life, a bottom of the barrel benchmark in which frankly nothing else that you watch from this point onwards could possibly be worse. It's all up from here. This film should be deleted from all publicly available services with immediate effect, life is too short to waste some of it being subjected to this utter toilet of a film.
harryhaller-59428 First, a spoiler alert--I can't illustrate how truly awful this movie is without specific examples that include descriptions of the scenes and the dialog. Maybe just saying it's awful is a spoiler (this is my first IMDb review)...so I'll add that I can't say everyone will dislike it as much as I did.The best part of this film is the sped-up clouds behind the opening credits, which Night copied from what, like a billion cliché videos and films? It's all down hill from there. Just about one minute into the first scene, the nonsensical action, bad script and stilted acting burst out like water from a fire-hose. No more than a minute later, it's clear that this scene makes no sense, and the classic B-movie characteristics start to emerge like cockroaches in a bad horror film--the oddly loud overdubbed breath of surprise, everyone except the protagonist (who, we find out a scene or two later, is not the protagonist) being frozen as if time has stopped, the person right next to her can't hear what she's saying (hasn't everyone seen Carnival of Souls?), the "suspense" when the girl grabs a 9-inch hair pin from her coif and (much too slowly, even though it's only about 3 seconds) does the obvious with it...Scene 2 opens with a construction worker telling a joke that makes no sense whatsoever. After the nonsensical joke, what is supposed to be a person but clearly is some kind of mannequin plops into a pile of debris. It happens so fast that no one possibly could tell who it was (you can't even glean a flash of what clothes the supposed person was wearing), but the character I would call Construction Worker #1 exclaims, "Christ, McKenzie fell." And so it goes...from minute to minute, second to second, it continues to get worse. Bad dialog, bad acting, bad directing. However, I must add that even the best actor can't act his or her way out of a script this terrible.Despite what I wrote in the first paragraph, I'm going to recommend that no one waste even one minute on this film.
javi-y-se-acabo 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.