I had heard bad things about this (tho that gives the film more credit than it deserves tbh)… Heard nothing much is probably more in line…
Anyway, its about a ‘happening’ something happening which is horrific and bad, kinda post-apocalyptic kinda thing. Only don’t worry, hope is not lost, it only happens in single part of the US, entirely within its hard straight edged borders, 100% contained… which given the hypothesis of ‘the happening’ in the film, along with the casts mental capacities of a gold fish is of no surprise.
The film is flawed, heavily. For example, they decide that X is probably the cause of the random wacky deaths, so, to minimise the chance of it happening they flee the cities (where X is in its lowest density) and head for small townships which are pretty much embedded in X. All the way through the cast seem to be getting some form of clue, or the film going somewhere and it just evaporates in the next breath they take. Literally they make some announcement of “Y is bad, lets avoid it” wait 5 seconds and they are skipping gleefully into as much ‘Y’ as they can !!
In one of the clips from the special features Mr Shyamalan states that they were going for a “Hard R” certification… perhaps only adults can tolerate this level of mundane monotony without having some sore of psychotic episode ? I think you can count the horrific events on one hand.
The whole film plods, really plods, even the dialogue plods, and Mark Wharlberg (who I do like) almost whinges and whinges his way though his plodding lines. One thing you can be sure of, you are 100% safe, completely of anything ever Happening in this film. Really… avoid it, unless you enjoy paint drying.
lol – that’s pretty much the same review as other people I know who happened to watch it …. I think I’ll definitely give it a miss