


If it’s the latter, it might be the best performance of his career.

Did he read this script – about plants causing people to commit suicide with telepathy – and think, “Wow, this is great, I’m going to do my best acting here!” Or did he think, “This film stinks, better ham it all the way up”? If it’s the former, this is the worst film ever. The big question about The Happening is whether or not Wahlberg knew it would turn out to be terrible. The nicest thing you can say about this film is that Wahlberg’s character doesn’t seem to want to have sex with his own daughter in this one, as he did in the previous instalment. However, this film still had to be made to accomplish this, and people still paid to see it – an unfollowable mishmash of sludgy CGI and berserk Arthurian legend.
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On the plus side, the decision to transform the incomprehensible Transformers series into a Wahlberg vehicle seems to have finally killed the franchise off for good. Worse still, he left Matt Damon’s role in Ocean’s 11 to make this nonsense. Eventually, though, it fell to Wahlberg, who accepted the role without reading a script. During its arduous development, Tom Cruise and Arnold Schwarzenegger were both attached to play the lead. Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes is destined to go down in infamy. Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Sportsphoto/Allstar Marky Mark and the monkey bunch … Wahlberg and Helena Bonham Carter in Planet of the Apes.
