Movie begins with weirdness in New York Central park. Everyone stops moving and is still, like time has stopped. Lady stabs herself in the throat with a metal hair bobby pin.
Switch to guy at a construction site and someone falls off the roof and dies. Then it begins raining humans as people are walking off the roof in a mass suicide.
Mark Wahlberg plays Elliot Moore, a science teacher who finds out from a phone call that people have begin killing themselves and it's being announced as a terrorist attack.
More and more areas in the northeast are being hit and effected. Everyone is dying and Elliot is on the run with his wife, friend, and young child. They wind up on a train and they are dropped off in the middle of nowhere.
What is this airbourne epidemic that is so ruthless it makes you kill yourself? What is the antidote they need. Elliot and a bunch of people lose contact with all friends and loved ones.
I'm not going to tell you what it is that is affecting people. The plot in this one is ok, at times though I was sitting thinking to myself, what the hell random tangent are they going off on here? This occurs about halfway through the film. They save it though with some wicked kills, including the one from the trailer where a guy gets runover by a riding lawnmower. There are some other really good freaky scenes including a guy intentionally getting his arms ripped off by a tiger in a zoo, and dozens of people hanging dead from trees.
Shyamalan at times tries to throw in a twist of comedy as well which comes off a bit funny but at other times I think some scenes could have been left out. There is also this issue with Elliot and his wife and their relationship problems as well.
Anyways, my overall opinion is the movie starts off decent, picks up to being really good, then falls off a bit once they find a house with an old lady, but then saves it with some cool scenes towards the last 1/3 and the ending was ok as well.
7.5/10
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