Happening

Pros: Some good creepy atmosphere
Cons: The screenplay and dialogue are remarkably stupid  

Who keeps giving M. Night Shyamalan money?  Whoever it is, they should stop - he just makes movies with it and I can't take any more.  He's a one hit wonder with the tenacity of the Energizer bunny, trying in vain to replicate the success of ...

Pros: The trees are less wooden than the leads
Cons: Wahlberg is awful, the movie is a sleeper

I’m almost at a loss for words on this one. M. Night Shyamalan’s career started out emphatically with what I consider to be two classics, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable. The Village was a little drop off but it still had its imaginative ...

Pros: Actors, basic premise of film
Cons: execution of the premise.

For M. Night wants to scare us, and the Oaks ignore his pleas. I had read several reviews of the latest by director M. Night Shyamalan. I like Mark Wahlberg, and I also have a soft spot for actress Zooey Deschanel.  (I love those bright blue ...

Pros: Plot, tension, score
Cons: Unoriginal, some will hate the ending

A mysterious, airborne force appears to be causing mass suicides (via Stephen King-like creative means, including lawnmowers and even knitting needles!) all across East Coast of the United States of Obama. Science teacher Mark Wahlberg (Marky Mark says ...

Pros: so bizarre and inexplicably bad I couldn't look away
Cons: takes itself way too seriously given the premise, cheesy performances

I swore after Lady in the Water that I would never see another M. Night Shyamalan movie in the theater. At that point, he had burned me pretty severely twice, so I had already experienced the age old "fool me once, shame on you, fool me ...

Pros: It is only boring instead of objectionable.
Cons: stultifying, slow, boring (yes, worth repeating)

When the opening credits are rolling and you find yourself getting bored watching white clouds billow in a blue sky, give in to the feeling to turn off the movie and go do something else. Don't waste your time sitting around waiting for The ...

Pros: It's a grower
Cons: Might not be suitable for all.

I have to talk about this DVD in a light as really the first film I bought of M. Night Shyamalan, which I seen one other movie of his being that I saw Unbreakable – this like many of his films make use of bright colors to create an atmosphere of ...

Pros: If you want to feel really, really smart-- watch this film.
Cons:

The worst, stupidest film of 2008, and maybe the worst, stupidest film of all time.

I sometimes wonder how much Joel Achenbach received for penning M. Night Shyamalan's disastrously stupid 2008 crud-fest, The Happening.Achenbac h, unlike Shyamalan, is not a household word among modern moviegoers. In fact, the man writes ...

Pros: Well made end of the world movie.
Cons: Downer flick.

I have to admit that I was reluctant to watch this film. Inundated with previews for the film prior to its release, talk of how director M. Night Shyamalan was the next best thing since John Carpenter when it came to horror and a personal recommendation ...

Pros: Wide appeal: humor, science, emotion.
Cons: Lots of dead bodies.

Once you get past the weird science, this movie works like a charm. I don't know about you, but I'm like Pavlov's dog: once I see the time lapse shot of rolling clouds above the beginning subtitles, I just settle back with whatever strange premise the ...

Pros: Workable premise, a couple of visceral scenes
Cons: Poorly paced, badly scripted characters (especially leads), leaves no impact on the viewer

M. Night Shyamalan seems to have become an odd sort of phenomenon: people keep garnering heaps of attention on his releases, but more and more with the sole purpose of pointing out how bad they are, usually referencing earlier works and lamenting a ...

Pros: Good production values ...
Cons: ... yet more fizzle than sizzle.

M. Night Shyamelan's THE HAPPENING (2008 -- THE is part of the title, although Epinions leaves it out) will immediately bring to mind Hitchcock's THE BIRDS, possibly one or another version of WAR OF THE WORLDS, possibly one or another version of ...

Pros: Good beginning. Good idea.
Cons: Story weakens at some points. Graphic suicides seem out of place.

Rented The Happening the other night and watched it with my better half. We both thought it was OK. Not great, but OK.Of course, this movie is depressing, as it deals with suicide on a large scale. Neither of us thought The Happening was ...

Pros: It's not all bad, Wahlberg's on-screen wife was funny
Cons: "The Happening" is what you get when a movie goes A.D.D.

This was supposed to be the official, inaugural Shyamalan horror extravaganza to shock us all. It's sad that it didn't live up to this expectation in the slightest. :-(The premise of the film is that mother nature is attacking humans; and the ...

Pros: If you want a boring movie there is another on available to watch.
Cons: Boring and career ending movie for a director with good potential.

I had really enjoyed < i>"M. (Manoj) Night Shyamalan" movies up to this point. "The Sixth Sense" (1999) was a great movie which left me wondering what was coming up next from M. Night Shyamalan, "Unbreakable" (2000) was ok but "Signs" (2002) was a ...