Trailer:
Two words: Don’t bother.
Synopsis: The plants have decided they’re just not going to take it anymore. We’ve destroyed too much of the planet. So they start emitting a psychotic gas that causes humans to go a little crazy and kill themselves. One guy, played by Mark Wahlberg (great actor, sorry you did this movie), figures out that the plants are attacking large groups of people. He and his wife and the daughter of a friend take off eventually by themselves and are able to “elude” the plants until the crisis is over.
My opinion: I keep expecting his movies to live up to the awesomeness and “gotcha” quality of his first movies: The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs and the Village. But the last few movies have just been such duds. It’s almost as if Shyamalan’s trying too hard now.
In the beginning, there is a question of what’s going on? Everyone is just going off and killing themselves. It’s really eerie. And then, they’re on the run and lose contact with everyone. And then smaller and smaller groups are killing themselves. And then there’s a crazy woman (one of many…).
At the end of it all, the climax was hardly climactic. The ending classic-Shyamalan gotcha moment leaves you going “is that it?”
Basically, it boils down to: we’re glad we didn’t see it in the theatre and spend all that money.
