The Happening is not happening

OK folks, The Happening is not happening at all. In fact, it was so lame that I was wondering if the director was trying to use it to induce suicidal tendencies amongst the audience.

What started out as an interesting mystery ("Wow! Why is making people kill themselves in gruesome ways?") ended up as a cheap clone of War of the Worlds (yes, the version which starred Tom Cruise), minus the expensive special effects like aliens with big menacing tripods. It even shares the same scene where the hero & his kid(s) hole up in a shack with a mad person who later goes 'aggro' on them and tries to do bad things to them. And both shared the same lame ending whereby the threat suddenly goes away just like that. No climactic battle scenes. No wonder the main cast (below) have the same glum expression as the audience.















The show might have been better if the script writer (who is also the director?) had tried to:

(A) make the victims have murderous tendencies first, before doing themselves in. Think of the possibilities the movie would have had. At the very least, it would be a zombie flick.

(B) take a leaf from the Japanese horror flick, Suicide Circle.

Once again, I wonder why I paid good money to watch yet another M. Night Shyamalan movie.