THE HAPPENING

THE HAPPENING SHOULDN'T HAVE

Without giving away the secret in the movie, perhaps I can save one person from attempting to challenge my movie report. It is a very "green" movie and tries to make an important statement about how we live. The key word is 'tries', because it ultimately makes a movie that takes itself way too seriously and the message has little punch regarding the characters and plot. In the DVD extras, there was a piece where M. Night talks about how this movie was a "hard R" for it's graphic violence and how they thought it was crucial to the plot. Watch any Quentin Tarantino movie, even a bad one, and you'll get the same violence central to the plot. Long story short, re-rent The Sixth Sense and your money will be better spent.

NOT a pick: Nice try, but it didn't work. Go talk to a tree.

"Lisbeth Wheelehan"