The Happening

Viewed: DVD

I’ve been a fan of M. Night Shamalangadingdong, (or however you pronounce his name), since Sixth Sense. Although I haven’t seen all his movies, I have liked all the ones I have seen.

The Happening, though, eh, is not all that. It’s not a bad movie, and I don’t feel that I wasted an hour and a half, but it’s not really as good as I expect from M. Night. His movies usually are well thought through, with any plot holes at least concealed. Plot holes in this film, though, stand out.

And how they figure out the problem comes from plants? It’s a leap of logic that I just don’t see how they could figure out. I can understand the florist/botanist guy making that assumption — he’s a bit weird and obsessed — but really, there’s no evidence that plants are the danger.

Every time the characters mentioned plants as the probable cause of the problems, they were standing surrounded by plants. If plants were the problem, you should be dying right now.

But I did like the idea that larger groups of people were in more danger than smaller groups. That was a neat gimmick.

The “almost end,” (before the real end scene), felt tacked on, and unnecessary. The real end scene was a good end.

Bullgrit