“The Happening:” A PeaceBang Review

SweetieBang* and I ventured out to see “The Happening” last night despite having read at least a dozen lukewarm to downright bad reviews of it. We agreed that the premise (people randomly committing suicide en masse) was sufficiently creepy and that M. Night Shyamalan’s unique storytelling abilities would probably be enough to entertain us for an hour and a half.
And that’s an hour and a half I’ll never get back.
This movie is worse than merely bad, it’s a genuine Golden Turkey. The script is preposterous and full of black holes of emotional and plot-related inconsistencies (like, what father would leave his 8-year old daughter with friends to head to a city that had very likely been hit by a terrorist attack in order to find his wife?). The dialogue is bad enough to groan over, and groan we did. The acting is so bad […]