As most of you will already know, direcetor M. Night Shyamalan put out his first ‘R’ rated movie The Happening. What most people are interested in with The Happening is just to found out what in the world is happening to cause such chaos. In the trailers you see crazy images and quick scenes of terror. If you judge the movie by the trailers is actually looks really cool and at the very least quite intriguing. The sad fact of the matter is that The Happening is downright gruesome and extremely violent on top of fairly poor acting, and an extremely crappy story. I really wanted to like this movie, but I don’t watch movies to see extreme violence…I watch them for cool stories and this one is pathetic. If you don’t want to spoil what’s in the movie then don’t read any further because I am going to tell you what is happening…no pun intended J . Ready for the movie in a nutshell? Ok! Basically, nature decides it is going to wipe out the human population by releasing neuro-toxin’s. Yes, all those cool trailers where you thought something crazy was happening…it was the trees. Scary eh? This movie is pretty much Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, but much worse. Worst of all when ‘evil’ is lurking the wind starts to blow and you see the leaves moving. Nothing scares the crap out of me more than WIND! The characters in the story are really dumb and make poor decisions far too often. For instance, where would you go if nature was attacking the world and everyone around you was getting killed? Would you go hang out in the woods or a nice big field? I suppose it makes too much sense to get the hell away from any kind of plant by hiding indoors. The ending of The Happening is a huge eye roller as well and very typical of 80’s horror movies. It does the whole three months later thing where the characters who survive are living a normal life again but then it shows two bicyclists. One of them starts to get disoriented showing that the event is going to happen again, but this time in France. Wow that’s amazing huh? I thought the ending was going to have a crazy twist and not be something I could see by renting a 99 cent movie at blockbuster. The Happening is not happening. Watch it at your own risk.