Rating of
3/4
NOT JUST ANOTHER POOLSIDE STORY
shutterspeed777 - wrote on 04/23/09
Just one of the "mystic" series of M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN. Oddly enough he comes up with some spectacular ones, and some real downers. 'THE HAPPENING' happens to be one of them zzzzz'ers. Now for this particular release, I'm just flat out baffled. My whole family has staged a mutiny against me on this one. I hope it doesn't end up in divorce. My friends stared at me with both disgust and disappointment. WHAT?? I love this film! I'm not gonna check all my FilmCrave friends to see whether they might delete me out of their friends' list coz I happen to dig the lady. I will stand on my ground.
Look it's a beautiful story of 'STORY' the lady in the pool..I mean the water. Which happens to be in a pool. A pool that happens to contain a large amount of water which underneath leads to a...anyways, it's spooky but cool. Man needs help. From whom? Obviously from himself! and so the drop-dead gorgeous BRYCE HOWARD initiates a support group. I know, I know, I'm sounding a bit comical about it but listen up..or read up..whatever.
The stuttering PAUL GIAMATTI ceases to stutter at her presence. Everybody needs help. But in order to find complete salvation, we need to discover our individual roles in life. Well, that's really my take. We have no reason to be jealous of each other because we have unique giftings and hence, different tasks to accomplish. We need to SYNERGIZE instead of CRITICIZE.
Good parallelisms. Plot development is ok. Really not as bad as people think. Try it. It'll quench your thirst.
