Very Good

Rating: 8/10 (10 July 2008)

Firs of all, i'd like to say I saw this movie quite a long time after it came out and i had heard a lot of mixed reviews. I would also like to say that I am a big Frank Darabont fan but agreed with the majority when I thought that he could only do prison drama's because The Majestic was terrible. This film has a fairly simplistic plot and story, what attracted me to it was the fact that it wasn't about people trying to defeat or kill whatever it was in the mist, it was just people trying to survive in trying times. After about 30 minutes I couldn't stop thinking about William Golding's The Lord Of The Flies. It has the same premise and even some of the characters are similar. It moves at the same pace and invokes the same feelings. I think Stephen King must have had Lord of the Flies in mind when he was writing the novella and Frank Darabont when writing the screenplay. I found the acting to be as good as anything else I have seen this year and the directing was top notch. While the direction was great it was very different to Darabonts earlier films. The one negative point I have to make about this film is the graphic's. I understand that this film was relatively low budget but you can tell that this was'nt really the area the production team focused on. Although some could argue that the bad special effects are in keeping with the genre. All in all, this was a very good film
8/10