The Happening

Again, the critics hated this but I kind-of liked it. It is a bit preachy about ecology and the state of the planet, but a good lesson. That being said, do not watch this movie if you don't mind gore. This movie is filled (I mean it) with suicide of various bloody means. I love me some Marky Mark, excuse me, Mark Wahlberg, and he did a great job acting with the part he'd accepted. It would have been a better movie if there had been less blood and horror and more relationship and disaster. The adorable Zooey Deschanel played Wahlberg's whiny conflicted wife to a T. The best part of the movie was the suspense, which was unfortunately brief. After they have a sense of what is causing the mayhem, the audience is subjected to countless suicides. Why? I'm not sure, maybe for water cooler reasons. M. Night Shyamalan can and has done better. For you teens of the 80s, watch for Betty Buckley (Eight Is Enough) in a mentally disturbed role. This movie's not all that and a bag of chips but it is something for someone who is comfortable with semi-slasher movies.