The Happening (2008) 6/10

Starring : Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez
Director : M Night Shyamalan
Running Time : 87 mins

When a suspected virus is unleashed in Central Park, people start randomly committing suicide, leading to a mass exodus from the East Coast of the United States. Science teacher Elliot Moore (Wahlberg) tries to get his wife Alma (Deschanel) to safety, along with his colleague Julain (Leguizamo) and his daughter Jess (Sanchez), but soon starts to suspect that perhaps something more sinister than terrorist is behind the deaths…

This movie wasn’t as bad as I suspected, but it did leave too much unexplained for my liking. I understand that this was apparently the point of the movie, but it would have been nice to have some sort of guess that didn’t get thrown out the window in the closing scenes. Wahlberg tries his best to keep the movie entertaining, but no one else seems that bothered about the movie, especially Deschanel who was far from being her usual buoyant self.

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