The Happening (2008)

M. Night Shyamalan offers up low-intensity thrills that fail to match the shivery shudders of his best work (THE SIXTH SENSE, SIGNS). His patented approach - mixing domestic drama with horror - plays out on a much larger canvas.

It is the first film of his career that feels incompetent and utterly gratuitous at times.

Shyamalan creates another urban myth with this slow burning thriller. But it never quite comes to life, due to stiff directing and acting

Usually Shyamalan can hide his limitations as a screenwriter behind his skill as a director. Here, that skill fails him as well, and the whole movie falls apart.

Un nuevo fiasco de M. Night Shyamalan, que sigue siendo un director con ideas interesantes (tanto argumentales como visuales) pero que necesita urgentemente la ayuda de un buen guionista.

Holy Mother of God...this is awful.

This major studio release asks the question, how long can you survive on past glories? Shame on Shyamalan.

An atmospheric tale that rewards with genuine shocks instead of big bang explosions and a hamburger tie in.

[N]owhere near the level of The Sixth Sense, and not quite as good as the subsequent Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village, but at least it suggests that the awfulness of Lady in the Water may have been an aberration.