The Happening

The Happening, Rated R for violent and disturbing images- Starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschenal, John Leguizamo, and Betty Buckley - Horror/Suspense

The Happening is okay. UNLESS you know Shyamalan made it and are expecting the kind of scripts like The Sixth Sense and Signs and The Village. The Happening falls a little short by comparisson. The script itself is not nearly as creepy as The Sixth Sense, not as witty as Sings, and not as original as The Village. It does have one redeeming quality, and that is Mark Wahlberg, which mercifully made this decent film fairly amusing. Standing on its own merits, it would have been rated better, but when you are expecting more (as one does from Mr. Shyamalan), it's somewhat of a let down.