The Suckening

It was "Date Night" tonight for me and Ruth, so we decided to go catch a movie and some dinner and since her birthday is next Friday, I let her pick the movie. She picked The Happening, which was fine by me, seeing as how I am a huge M. Night Shyamalan fan and own all of his other movies (except for Wide Awake). And let me go on record as saying...possibly one of the Top 10 worst movies I've EVER seen.

SPOILERS AHEAD








So we start out on a pleasant day in Central Park, NY and all is well, until the wind starts blowing and all of a sudden people start comitting suicide. And we see some pretty wild shots of a woman sticking a hair pin in her neck and construction workers jumping from scaffolds. So what could be causing all of this? Terrorists! Or at least that's what Marky Mark and the funky bunch think. So they take to the road, heading for small towns, where they'll be safe, fleeing Philly. And when I saw "they", I mean, Wahlberg's wife, played by Zooey Deschanel, Wahlberg's co-worker and friend, played by John Leguizamo and his daughter. While on the road they start to hear reports that major cities all over the Northeast are being suicide ridden, and the possibility of a terrorist attack seems less likely. So what's the cause? Could it be the plants, Marky asks? Well, he asks, but we never get a solid answer. And what shitty acting to boot.

I mean c'mon, does that not sound like the dumbest outline for a movie you've ever heard. Plants are angry at us for polluting the environment, so they start attacking us? How exactly are plants able to make people kill themselves? PLEASE! The whole concept of a scary movie, is to make the viewer at least concieve the idea, being presented, as a possibility. The Happening is just ludicrous.

Avoid it at all costs. Save your money. See the Incredible Hulk or something.