the missed

Rating: 3/10 (28 July 2012)

(Sorry for the title - I'm sure it's elsewhere here.) Maybe the saddest thing about this mess is that King supposedly loved it. There goes any hope of his being a victim of awful Hollywood. Anyway. The deal is, King is a talented hack. Which is fine; he has great moments and a lot of repetitive junk. But 'The Mist' was simply a fun, really good, scary story. The movie begins with potential, then screws up. BADLY. As noted here a lot, the religious frenzy was just too, too much. Even people that terrified would not so readily become mindless zombies, and this plot device drives, God help us, the second half of this too long film. Now, the ending - again, loved by SK. The problem isn't its darkness. The problem with it is its hopeless absence of any sense. OK, they're all in rough shape, but these are four smart people in the car. They know the area very well. They know that cars run out of gas. So, no one suggests heading to a shelter more secure than the supermarket? Or to a gun store (it's Maine, after all), or counting on the gun they have to buy the time needed to get gas? Tension and dread aside, it's insane to think that all of them would sit silently, banking only on enough fuel to get them out of the danger.