Green Planet (USA) (working title) , The Green Effect (USA) (working title)
Country
:
USA | India
Language
:
English
Color
:
Color
Sound Mix
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Dolby Digital EX | DTS-ES
Filming Locations
:
30th Street Station - 3001 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Distributors
:
20th Century Fox
Overwiew :A family is on the run from an inexplicable and unstoppable event that threatens not only humankind--but the most basic human instinct of them all: survival.
USA Today - Claudia Puig
: Shyamalan isn't drawing the caliber of performances from his actors as he used to.
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C-
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - William Arnold
: ...a pleasant surprise.
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B+
San Francisco Chronicle - Mick LaSalle
: It's an entertaining movie, which is half the game, but it's not scary, which it should be.
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C+
ReelViews - James Berardinelli
: ...eclipses The Lady in the Water in terms of ineptitude.
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C-
New York Times - Manohla Dargis
: ...a divertingly goofy thriller...
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B  
New York Post - Kyle Smith
: No one will watch any of Shyamalan's recent films twice. A movie that features Wahlberg suggesting everyone try to outrun the wind can barely be watched once.
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C-
Los Angeles Times - Carina Chocano
: ...elegant but failed...
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C  
Hollywood Reporter - Kirk Honeycutt
: This paranoid thriller has its moments, but weak story and characters do mage than any neurotoxic menace.
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C  
filmcritic.com - Bill Gibron
: It's official: M. Night Shyamalan is no longer the next Spielberg.
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D  
Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum
: ...a feature-length Twilight Zone episode...
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C  
E! Online - Alex Markerson
: Nothing in The Happening is particularly lively.
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C-
Chicago Tribune - Geoff Berkshire
: It's scary how (unintentionally) funny this one is.
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C-
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
: ...oddly touching.
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B  
Boston Globe - Ty Burr
: ...Deschanel has never seemed so comatose...
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D  
Total Reviews:
5
Average Rating:
5 Comments
Barry says @ Saturday - July 05,2008
The idea behind "The Happening" is wonderfully enticing, but the delivery and direction are lacking. The best part of the movie is the first five minutes.