The not so happening

+ The Happening



So first there was a kid who can see ghosts. Then aliens making crop circles. Then "mythical creatures". Followed by a mermaid in a swimming pool. And now, the new M. Night Shyamalan thriller is about trees...yes you read right...Trees with a capital T. Trees. Okay, i've been warned by many about this movie. They've asked me not to go watch it coz it'll just be a wasted of money. But the thing is i'm quite a fan of M. Night Shyamalan. The Sixth Sense, The Village and Signs were movies I enjoyed. So I decided to go ahead and catch it with Al. However it's sad to say that 'The Happening' is just not THAT happening. Although the concept of foliage threatening humankind is interesting, but the plot of the movie is not.

Sure there was Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel as the leading actors but they didn't quite have that big an impact to save the movie. The movie may have been getting bad reviews but there were a few scenes which I carried in my mind even having left the cinema. One of them was the opening and closing scene which was shockingly spectacular. The part where people just froze in their steps, their speech slurred and one by one begin to commit suicide. I thought that scene was brilliant!

Other than that, the movie is not hard hitting. And although it is a thiller, it didn't manage to induce fear in me. But it did manage to induce some eye-shielding action on Alvin's end.