Every M. Night Shyamalan Movie Ranked Worst To Best

15. The Happening (2008)

The Happening is a rare, complicated beast of a Bad Movie, in that while it's utterly absurd -- to an honestly laughable degree -- it also manages to be very dull.

For one thing, there's the premise: Plants are killing us! Run away! It's nonsensical, and crosses the line from camp and dumb-fun to just plain dumb. Then there's the cast, led by a horribly miscast, impressively airless Mark Wahlberg, and the muted finale, which allows the film's silly mystery to end with a whimper.

And all that's without actually getting to Shyamalan himself, whose rushed, odd, self-serious exploration of climate change is so clunky and tired it often slips into parody. He wants the ideas to pack a punch, but they barely register in the first place. There's nothing here worth sitting through.