In case you haven't seen any previews for The Happening, this is M. Night Shyamalan's first-ever R-rated movie. But does that mean it's actually worth your time and money.

Let's see what various film critics have to say about that...

- The movie seems more like a '50s science fiction film of extreme paranoia or an episode of "The Twilight Zone" that even at a swiftly paced 90 minutes feels padded... -- Hollywood Reporter

- The movie demonstrates a smart movie geek's obsession with the rhythms and gory details of horror storytelling, undermined by a pompous insistence on spiritual lessons of the tritest kind... -- Entertainment Weekly

- Sadly for Mr. Shyamalan, the ideas that have been coming to him since his brilliant first hit, The Sixth Sense, are progressively worthy of less merit and more deserving of ridicule... -- Urban Cinefile

- It's a shame that the movie is such a tonal failure, because it does many other things right... -- Las Vegas Weekly