pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FLICKFEEL
51
from 50 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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FUN
22
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
30
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Nobody has rated this on FlickFeel yet. This is public discussion of this title, read into a curve. It is not a rating and it never becomes one.
Read from 50 comments (50 from Metacritic) — 13 of them described how it moves.
Thin evidence — the shape below rests on 13 comments. The shaded band is how wide the uncertainty actually is, and it is drawn to scale.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
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“only surprises the viewer in the first 20-30 minutes”
eva3si0n · Metacritic ↗
“Then it begins to fall apart in plot, and the dynamics of the narrative sag”
eva3si0n · Metacritic ↗
“M. Night Shyamalan destroys it itself in the final third of the film”
eva3si0n · Metacritic ↗
“the first half of the film begins to seem generally stupid”
eva3si0n · Metacritic ↗
“This movie is bad from start to finish”
HaloFever · Metacritic ↗
“this movie is just bad from start to finish”
HaloFever · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 100% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
It plays better than it reviews — the watch lands harder than the write-ups suggest.
“An unapologetic B-movie.”
William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer · 83
“A movie that I find oddly touching. It is no doubt too thoughtful for the summer action season, but I appreciate the quietly realistic way Shyamalan finds to tell a story about the possible death of man.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times · 75
“Even when his scripts aren't working, Shyamalan knows how to frame shots and build suspense. The Happening, even more than his previous films, has a visual elegance and subtlety that helps to overcome the less successful aspects of the plot.”
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald · 75
“A divertingly goofy thriller with an animistic bent, moments of shivery and twitchy suspense and a solid lead performance from Mark Wahlberg.”
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times · 60
“Whether you’re a casual or an ardent follower of M. Night Shyamalan's films, The Happening could alienate or dominate your thinking cap. Remember--it's perfectly acceptable to laugh one second and shriek the next.”
Stina Chyn, Film Threat · 60
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it plays better than it reviews — critics 26, the watch 51
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“only surprises the viewer in the first 20-30 minutes”
eva3si0nabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“Then it begins to fall apart in plot, and the dynamics of the narrative sag”
eva3si0nabout 15–100% inread it ↗
“M. Night Shyamalan destroys it itself in the final third of the film”
eva3si0nabout 75–100% inread it ↗
“the first half of the film begins to seem generally stupid”
eva3si0nabout 0–50% inread it ↗
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