What's Happenin?

The Happening, By M Knight Shyamalan,

Well, this was a bad idea. My nephew, late of the War on Terror, now installing cable TV, and I went to see M Knight Karma Carmel's first ever R-rated release. I wanted to smell dead people.

Whatcha get when go see the Happening is The Andromeda Strain meets The Core during a Screening of Deep Impact with no real payoff at the end just Markie Mark Wahlburg and Zooey what's her name Deschanel, the cute girl from Hitch Hiker's Guide, running for their lives as everybody around them commits suicide for no apparent reason.

Markie Mark, late of Funky Bunch fame, is a school teacher in New York whose ability to peer through binoculars may just save our heros, running with a little girl whose father has caught the suicide bug. In two eerily similar scenes a Philadelphia policeman and an Army MP commit suicide with their duty guns. Following which everybody else nearby takes a toot off Pistol Whiskey Peat's.

This movie is all build-up with no genuine plot. No conglomerate of military and scientists show up to fight the dreaded foe, nobody discovers the cure. Just one day, for 25 hours, people kill themselves for no apparent reason. Maybe a bad movie?!?!