Mark Wahlberg has reportedly singled out the 2008 thriller *The Happening* as a film he regrets making, describing it as “a bad movie”. The comments matter because they are an unusually direct assessment from the actor of one of the less well-regarded projects in his career.

The film was directed by M. Night Shyamalan and cast Wahlberg as a science teacher amid a mysterious mass-casualty crisis. Although the article text supplied contains no further reporting or evidence beyond the headline, the reference is widely associated with Wahlberg’s later criticism of the film.