Well the good films just keep on coming. Well, let's just reserve judgement for a second, as we look at tonight's Tuesday Night is Film Night film;
The Happening
From 2008, Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel star in this sci-fi thriller about a mysterious toxin that seems to be transferred via plants, but nobody is sure.
The film opens in Central Park, New York and within the first few minutes, you know where this film is going, as it grabs you by the throat and drags you kicking and screaming into the realms of it's fantasy terror.
It seems like an airborne toxin sweeps through Central Park and everybody comes to a standstill and...........
............... I don't think I'm giving too much away, when I say, they start committing suicide left, right and centre. As an opening sequence, it's a cracker! And the scenes are quite graphic, so you are literally on the edge of your seat, not knowing what you are going to see next.
The action centres on school teacher Elliot Moore (Wahlberg) and his young Wife; Alma (Deschanel) and we follow them as they try to head to safety, away from New York. However, the events keep 'happening', and this phrase is repeated several times, hence the films title.
As I said, it is a gripping, intense, violent thriller. Very creepy in places and will have you hiding behind the sofa. Wahlberg is superb as Elliot, playing the cool school teacher, who is trying to keep it together for those around him, as they try to flea from the onslaught of this deadly 'thing'.
The drama is powerful, the action is striking, the storyline is plausible, the ending is diabolical................
What?
Yes, afraid so. I was expecting a happy ending. Which, inevitably is what happened. However, it was also inexplicable. Open ended. Inconclusive. Nothing was rounded off neatly. Which I guess alludes back to the opening section of the movie, but still, I like a film with a start, middle and end.
Two out of three is not good enough.
Unless of course, they make The Happening 2!!
In summation, great start. Good middle. Terrible end!
Check out the reviews on Amazon. It was slated!
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