Movie Reviewance: The Happening

Just yesterday, Rol, Bui, Bel, and I and two of our close friends: Pol & QD, went to watch The Happening scheduled to air in the afternoon. The movie premiered the day before yesterday which was Friday the 13th. What made us watch this movie(QD excluded) was because the director was the same person who directed the satisfactory movie The Sixth Sense. From this we had expectations to know that it's going to be a very eerie and creepy movie. The trailers compelled us to look forward to it ever more.

Alright, the suggested plan was to watch it at night, but since Rol is driving ALL of us but Pol to the Star Cineplex, Rol ruled us out with the afternoon session as the final verdict. For what the reason??

Rol is a person who likes to think things would eventually turn out skeptical. Just imagine if a bunch of people suddenly starts jumping from the top floor of the now-under-construction building just beside Bintang Plaza; or a person jumps in front of a moving vehicle(in this case, Rol's) for no particular reason(scenarios related to scenes from the movie). EEEEEEEeee! THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN :D

QD felt that she was somewhat tricked into going. I gave her warnings about the movie not suitable for her "weak" character. However, another "side" of me told her that CYP was going with us for her assurance. That was a big fat lie of course :x

Unfortunately, we missed about 10 minutes of the beginning of the movie due to the last moment pickup at QD's house(people in the movie started dying already during then! >_<)

Okay, I've been beating around the bush with this. Time for the movie review x)

The movie revolves around a science teacher Elliot Moore; his estranged wife, Alma Moore; Elliot's best friend and colleague Julian, a math teacher; and Julian's eight-year-old daughter Jess.

Basically, when we entered the movie theater, Alma Moore was already watching the news about the deaths of people that are mysteriously caused. In such, the manner of death is only(yes, only) a self-committed suicide. The anchorman explained that the cause of death was due to the neurotoxins that causes the cells to somehow(bla bla bla) make a person lose total control of himself and somewhat automatically seek a way to suicide. (scary o.O)

The plot contains a couple, a best friend and his daughter that struggles to find a way to escape the pandemic self-slaughter that vastly spreads from large cities and eventually to the smaller areas. However, this only occurs around the northeastern area of America. The first speculated thought was that this biowarfare virus is carried out by none other than terrorists(typical thought). On the other hand, a plant expert in the movie who's just damn crazy about hotdogs, believe that it was done by plants that emit chemicals into the air as a form of evolution to cope with the current environment.

Some of the aspects and concepts used in the movie are the unbelievably LOUD sound effects(with screams from QD as an added effect then VOILA! surround-sound to the max!!) There's a lot of suspense in the movie that just makes you hold your breath, sometimes unnecessarily(half of it is because the virus is spread AIRBORNE. With surround-sound in effect thanks to QD, the experience is nearly real enough to hold your breath whenever the movie portrays a large gale blowing by, most likely carrying the virus)

Also, this movie has nothing to do with the supernatural spirits as it is very much relate to reality and QUITE POSSIBLE of happening. I won't list out how each death scene is carried out because it'll spoil the movie furthermore for those who have not watched it. Overall, it's a movie with a theme of survival that consists a quick-witted scientist(possibly), includes family problems and obstacles that tests the love of the couple, a guy who's a plant expertise and totally loves hotdogs, as well as a superficial maths teacher that believes you can earn 10 million in a month with just pennies. It's a good movie, that makes one not be able to eat so soon after watching it as there's a lot of gore and macabre so be warned!. Once again thanks to QD for her presence to make the movie-viewing a very much life-like experience. x)
7.5/10 from hay