The Happening Reviews Round Up

M Night Shyamalan’s latest film, ‘The Happening’ has become what many assume as another blunder. Many critics calling it an “M. Night-mare”, asking “What Just Happened?” and claiming “Shyamalan’s Lost Sense” and the box office is confirming is failure. However, with another failed horror movie, brings a long more interesting reviews, so I share with you, a few.

• Urban Thought Collective’s “A Black Man’s Review of The Happening“

“This is not going to be a popular review, and I am okay with that. Ever since my fifth grade report on the deterioration of the ozone layer due to manmade pollution, I have had an eye for the environment. I may not be a full-blown granola-head but I believe in the fragility of our ecosystem and the adverse role humans can play in it. Apparently, so does M. Night, as his latest “don’t give away the plot” spine-tingler is a very science-based, disturbingly effective eco-thriller.”

• Film Buff Online reviews The Happening Script

“Those coming to the movie expecting another “Bruce Willis is really a ghost” type twist ending with which some appear to expect from Shyamalan will be sorely disappointed. At this point in his career, it should be obvious that Shyamalan is more than a one-trick pony, a weaver of supernatural O. Henry stories that send their audiences out theater doors into the bright sunlight of a much safer and rational world than the one they just witnessed, their minds still reeling from a last minute storytelling hairpin curve. Instead, Shyamalan is a fantasist with a fascination for the human condition. He is more concerned with exploring human emotion and reaction than he is with presenting the spectacle against which these stories invariably play against. And while he may have recently stumbled with last year’s Lady In The Water, this initial draft of The Happening shows a writer/director working very much on all cylinders.”

While the reviews may be mixed, M. Night Shyamalan will always steal my heart.