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The Happening

The Happening (2008)

June. 13,2008
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5
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R
| Thriller Science Fiction

When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister?

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mcguinnessjames
2008/06/13

The beginning act is honestly fairly good and there are multiple performances which didn't make me question WTF I was watching. It had a decent buildup yet failed to execute in every way. Every suicide we see is fake looking and honestly embarrassing. Yet the concept is intriguing yet is bogged down by clichés of all manners with a ridiculous plot point about the plants and communication it just bores and loses you. Yet it's entertaining and if you're bored give it a go with some parts being downright hilarious. Such as the zookeeper being torn apart and the building site.

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Gubby-Allen
2008/06/14

The review would usually reflect a 1/10 film. I only give it more as it was an interesting premise, started off ok and kept me fully intrigued and guessing throughout.But that was alway in the knowledge, that it was horrendous as film and as a story. The actors looked completely bored and uninspired throughout and as if they did not really have a clue what was happening either. It has also dated so quickly as a film amd.could pass as a film from the 1980's, although it looked like they attempted a Hitchcock style.It made little if any sense. A few of the people in the opening scenes, did not seem to be affected by the virus, when all rounds them were, but that never went anywhere. The attacks all seemed to stop in a perfectly straight line down the entire U.S but nobody was able to get through the line. I never really understood the exact number of people that need to be in the group to make it safe or unsafe and how group of people are all affected and another group in the same field, were not.

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ludvikmarki
2008/06/15

This movie is hilarious. It is actually so bad, its good. The acting is absolutely dreadful! Especially from Zooey Deschanel! M. Night Shaymalan Has an extremely varied career as a director!He has made two amazing movies (the sixth sense, and signs), as well as three OK movies (split, the village, and the visit), and three absolutely horrible movies (the happening, the last airbender, and after earth). I think this is very disappointing, since we saw in his early career that he really can make amazing movies with signs and the sixth sense, then he come with movies like the last airbender which is widely regarded as one of the worst movies of all time!Lets go back to this movie! This movie has so many extremely stupid and dull moments that makes me laugh so hard! One example is when some of the survivors find bodies hanging while driving on a road, and after we see this, a girl in the car screams and freaks out so hard! Even though she obviously wouldve seen this before we saw the bodies hanging!Just watch it! its actually so bad its worth watching. You will laugh so hard!!

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jb0579
2008/06/16

Quite possibly the worst movie ever made. If I were a judge, instead of sending people to jail I'd make them watch this movie. I'd only make them way h it once though. Once is plenty. What starts out as impossibly horrible dissolves into, get this, something even MORE horrible. Sort your sock drawer, get a bad sunburn, clean up after the dog.....do anything but watch this....thing. You'll thank me later.

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