It Simply Ain’t “Happening”
Here’s what the critics are saying about M. Night Shyamalan’s latest movie The Happening:
- a “woeful clunker of a paranoid thriller.” –The Wall Street Journal
- “The Happening deflates from its grisly, early promise to repetitive images of people running through fields, the unlucky ones suddenly stopping, then searching about for convenient ways to do themselves in.” –The Associated Press
- “Shyamalan’s throwback horror flick plays like The Birds meets The Blob; it’s beyond good and evil. It’s dumbfounding.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
- “What a bunch of nonsense—effective nonsense, chilling nonsense, occasionally wrenching nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless.” –Village Voice
- “Here’s a movie trivia game I wish I didn’t have to play.