Plagued by a horrible premise, bad acting, and weak attempts at "horror," The Happening easily ranks as one of the worst films ever made. This is somewhat depressing, seeing as M. Night Shaymalan has produced such intriguing movies as The Sixth Sense and The Village. It seems as though the studio in charge of this film gave the director carte blanche, and he literally used his first draft script to shoot.

So what is "happening?" (Stop here if you don't want spoilers.) (OK...keep reading, it's so lame that you don't need to worry about it) The plants are pissed off. They've decided, for some unknown reason, that humans are now a threat, and they're going to release a neurotoxin into the air, which causes disorientation and then eventually the need to kill one's self. No aliens. No evil insects. No terrorists. Just some really pissed off plants. Lame, in this reviewer's opinion.

The "acting," if you can call it that, was worthy of an Ed Wood flick at best. Even then, Tor Johnson in Plan 9 From Outer Space could have done a better job than John Leguizamo or Mark Wahlberg, which is sad to see from two very talented actors. I'll attribute this to the shitty script and premise again, as there's no possible way Wahlberg could go from Boogie Nights to this without having taken a substantial amount of heroin into one of his veins.