Very Moving...

Rating: 8/10 (23 August 2008)

Aftear hearing from many people that the film was a disappointment, I just HAD to see it...
I started watching it expecting another lame adaptation of one of Stephen King's stories. I was pleasantly surprised at how the film captured the spirit of King's writing.
"The Mist" is a wonderful insight into humanity's "mob" mentality. It is, like most "apocolyptic" films, an exploration of what happens to a society when all the boundaries placed on us by civilization come crashing down.
The acting, as a whole, was not bad. Thomas Jane plays the part of David Drayton, an artist and father who is the voice of reason when a large group of people barricade themselves into a grocery store to protect themselves from "the mist" and the terrors that dwell in it. Jane's performance is good, but not great. At key moments I was very moved by his honesty on screen.
Marcia Gay Harden really steals the show as a crazed evangelical who preaches her message of fire and brimstone, creating hysteria among the survivors shut away in the store. Her character really sets a fire to the rest of the actors, and at many moments i was both horrified and compelled by her crazed influence on both the people around her and the story itself. Very intriguing...
The special effects in the film were not half bad! I REALLY liked the monsters because they weren't too out of this world. Very interesting as well...
A lot of people complained about the ending of this movie. Really, if you know Stephen King and his work, you shouldn't expect any less. I never would have predicted that ending. It was, once again, very moving. For me, i was pleasantly surprised.
If you don't like the ending to this movie, I suggest War of the Worlds. Maybe that will give you the mindless ending you were looking for...