Movie 312: The Happening (review)

At first when I saw this trailer, I thought that it would be a nice movie, like the first of M. Shyamalan's movie The Sixth Sense, well even though I didn't really watched it. But it ended up slightly better than The Sign. Too much that I expected, and at the begining I thought that it's another alien invasion movie, but who knew that the thing that happened to attack the cities and peoepl was actually somthing that lived together and around us.

Seriously, the story line was a bit blurry, that you actually didn't know what happened to cause this so-called "accident" to occur, and why it only happened in a part of the whole country but not all. And did I tell you that all the while the thing that attacks the humanity was actually plants? In the movie, it was told that something caused the plants to react against human that they created a kind of chemical and released it to the air in order to cause confusion and death to humans. Like when a plant is attacked by catapilars, it will react to it and create a kind of chemical that will attract wasps and let them kill the catapilars. Well, some kind of facts that were told in the movie. So it's something similar to this kind of situation that caused the plants to have such reaction to humans, but what actually had those human done to the plants? No one knows......

And why is the title called The Happening? Well, basically, I think it's because that the incident happened in such a hurry and out of no where, without warnings, and ends in a sudden as well that you don't even know that it has ended. Plus, it all happened in jus one day and ended on the other day. So happeneing on that day, and so I think M. Shyamalan used this title. Hmm.........

Well, it was really happening as well on that day I watched this movie. Everyone was lining up for The Incredible Hulk, and almost all the sessions of it were like selling fast and sold off. But, all the sessions for The Happening were still available. But by the time I get tickets, the seats are almost full also. I guess those people must be couldn't get tickets for Hulk so just give up and watched The Happening, haha......

Star rating: 2.5 stars out of 5!! (p/s: Communicate with plants, the can sense you........)