I'm just back from the theater where i went to see the happening and I really feel that Shyamalan let me down.
First let me say that the story as a whole was a good one. But the treatment is totally bogus. As another commenter said, the action start right at the beginning of the movie. I don't really know if it's a good thing, most of the movie have pathetic introduction to every character, but sometimes it's the price to pay to care for them.
The biggest problem with the movie are the dialogs. Most of the things the people says through the film are crap. I don't know anybody who speaks like this. All the lines between Wahlberg and Deschanel seems totally artificial. No wonder, their acting seems totally odd. I don't know, how it would be possible to seems natural saying the crap, they have to say.
Globally after the introduction of the happening and the Wahlberg character where he speak the only really relevant dialog (and the key of the movie), I started to find the time really long.
First let me say that the story as a whole was a good one. But the treatment is totally bogus. As another commenter said, the action start right at the beginning of the movie. I don't really know if it's a good thing, most of the movie have pathetic introduction to every character, but sometimes it's the price to pay to care for them.
The biggest problem with the movie are the dialogs. Most of the things the people says through the film are crap. I don't know anybody who speaks like this. All the lines between Wahlberg and Deschanel seems totally artificial. No wonder, their acting seems totally odd. I don't know, how it would be possible to seems natural saying the crap, they have to say.
Globally after the introduction of the happening and the Wahlberg character where he speak the only really relevant dialog (and the key of the movie), I started to find the time really long.