‘The Happening’ really isn’t

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It’s an inconvenient truth: That “Sixth Sense” guy no longer makes good movies.

Director/writer/producer M. Night Shyamalan proves it again with his new environmental doomsday thriller “The Happening.” Originally titled “The Green Effect,” it’s a cautionary tale out of some kind of an Al Gore nightmare … a really slow, generic, poorly acted and ultimately stupid nightmare. It rounds out a trilogy of Shyamalan disappointments after his last two, “The Village” and “Lady in the Water.”

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