The M. Night Shyamalan film staring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, and Betty Buckley is extremely overrated. It is a movie about an airborne toxin coming from the trees annihilating mankind. At first people thought that it was a terrorist attack but they were wrong. It’s trees, and maybe some bushes, that are leading thousands of people to their gruesome death.
The toxin starts in the Northeastern part of the country, starting with major populations and moving down into smaller towns (like the size of Pittsford). What it does is make people hallucinate and then graphically commit suicide.
The movie starts out with two women sitting on a bench, and they have just inhaled the deadly toxin. Everything stops and then she pulls a chopstick out of her hair and plunges it into her neck. It then goes to a scene with construction workers. The people on top of this building are infected with the toxin and start jumping off a three-story building in a single file line. At this point in the movie I’m starting to be a little unsure about how it’s going to turn out.
The same thing happens throughout the whole movie. The wind blows a little harder and then a group of people kill themselves. Somehow a group of three people survive by hiding inside a crazy woman’s house (like there’s no air inside the house) to escape the toxins. The crazy woman gets infected and starts bashing her head into all the windows, breaking them and letting all the bad air in. So they run outside (wow) to try to find a place to hide. They hear the wind picking up so they start running and somehow out run the wind and survive.
In conclusion, I thought this movie was terrible. The acting was dry and the lines were corny. The plot was ridiculously lame and boring. To sum it all up it was a repetitive, corny movie. I wasn’t sure if it was supposed to be a suspenseful mystery or a comedy. If you haven’t seen “The Happening” then take my word for it and don’t waste your time renting it.
