The Happening

Movie Synopsis

Everything is normal in New York City, but when a suspected terrorist strike hits Central Park the normal people start to kill themselves. The threat grows and is it does it becomes clears that there is some powerful force behind the events that survivors are having to flee from.

Movie Review Summary

The film comes from M. Night Shyamalan, who is well known from his other films (Sixth Sense and Unbreakable to name a couple) so you know you’re going to get something a bit different from your usual films. The initial reviews I read of this suggested this is one of his weaker films. I would suggest that they’ve raised the bar so high on suspense and the last minute twist that the viewer expects more. Instead, you should just sit and savour this films. With this bordering on an apocalyptic film the experience you could get could certainly get quite scary. From my point of view, this film has enough suspense in it to keep it moving along nicely and it doesn’t disappoint. Perhaps the only disappointment is the ending. As I say, you’d expect a serious twist, but this one hardly has any. It’s not the lack of twist which lets it down a bit, it’s the lack of much more than a simple passing of the events.

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