In the (not so) Happening there is one scene that caught me off guard. The small group of survivors lucky enough not to catch something downwind (heh heh) come upon the old house. At which point one of the occupants of that house blasts one of the surviving party away with a shotgun.

Surprising, yes?

Then I was angry. As the movie progresses, characters come and go, and the only reason why I didn’t expect a scene like that is that it really doesn’t belong in the movie. There is no point to it. If the plants are causing people to kill themselves, now, all of a sudden, they cause people to be paranoid and kill strangers. Or is it now all the above?

However, I don’t think this is a terrible film. I like the idea that Shyamalan chose not to follow his usual motis operendi and answer questions never asked or cared about (Unbreakable), having explanations that have no credibility to them (Village, Lady In The Water, Signs) and instead just tipping the hat to Hitchcock’s The Birds. You don’t know why the attack happens or the true motive behind it. Nothing needs to explained or over explained, It just “happens”.