When all the bumble bees disappear, all the intellectual types get a bit worried but your average student doesn't really care about nature.

That is until an entire city dies from an apparent terrorist attack. The oddest thing being that they seem to be dying at their own hand.

People suddenly leave all the major cities in the North West of the USA, as new outbreaks started wiping out smaller population groups.

A science teacher from Philadelphia (Mark Wahlburg), his wife (Zooey Dechanael, Cloverfield), their friend and his daughter all flee the city before it is struck but when the train personnel loose contact with the controllers they decide to stay where they are.

Soon our hero, his wife and the kid find themselves seeking out the most isolated spots possible fleeing from what they believe is the culpret - the plants.

The film builds and builds to a point where you start to think - ok, they're dead. There is no way out of this but unfortunately doesn't go anywhere. Unlike in some of M Night Shyamalahan's other masterpieces like The Sixth Sense, or Signs this one misses that core twist - that moment when suddenly it all makes sense.

It just suddenly ends and although I can see how that would relate to something said at the start of the film, it still doesn't answer any questions which leaves the film unfulfilling and unfinished.

Also some of the plot points which are supposed to be taken seriously are just laughable. It's a good idea, having an invisible enemy and leaving it to the imagination but this film somehow misses the mark.

see also:
A Beautiful Mind, The Bourne Identity

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