Rating: Sub-prime mortgage x 5One Line Synopsis: Nothing Happens
Brief Writeup: M. Night single-handedly triumphs over the talents of Mark Walhberg (The Departed) and the beautiful Zoey Deschanel (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) to make a horrendous movie and probably wasted a bazillion bucks in the process. The mystery of how plants are killing humans is used as a vehicle to deliver stylistic scenes of low brow gore and mayhem. This is a classic example of style over substance. The biggest mystery to me is how a movie with no plot can yield such an interesting trailer that tempted us to rent the movie in the first place. The boring Elliot played by Walhberg displays none of the bravado and flow that the actor is so well known for. In fact, poor Elliot seems a little slow on the uptake (Plants bad...No go near plants). If he is indeed the world's last hope for survival, then we are truly, hopelessly, domed.
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The book "The Day of the Triffids" by John Wyndham is about monstrous walking plants taking over the world in which human beings have gone blind from pollution. The premise is that man's only advantages over plants are sight and mobility; when he loses that, and when the plants acquire them, then man is totally at the mercy of the plants.
Could the movie be based on this?
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