Sorry attempt - let's look at the flaws

Rating: 2/10 (24 July 2008)

There are plenty of posts out here saying "It's great" or "It sucks". I had heard good things so went into my viewing very positively. Unfortunately, I found this tedious and annoying. There were a few good moments but they were heavily unweighed by a bad script, bad acting, and bad effects. There is much less suspense than you would imagine in a thriller. But after some extremely wooden acting in the first ten minutes ("A tree fell on our house, oh well") with a storm that looked milder than the three thunderstorms that passed here in the last two weeks, we get a quick succession of ridiculous scenes:
(1) A guy runs into a grocery store from some fog and yells "Close the doors, there's something bad in the fog". People do and suddenly the whole store is in terrified silence. Very realistic.
(2) In the storeroom, a redneck yells at the artist "I'm tired of all your pretensions" after about 30 seconds of dialog of which none is pretentious.
(3) The schoolteacher has a gun but they need someone who can shoot it and the second-rate clerk just happens to be state pistol champion. Oh yeah, don't even think about the three soldiers who are in the store as they probably don't know how to use a gun.
(4) A big city lawyer believes that four people are playing a joke on him in the middle of a crisis situation.
(5) You reason that you can probably make it next store to the pharmacy because the one guy who left made it about 200 feet before being horribly killed. But you forget about the stock boy who made it about 6 inches before being killed.
(6) A huge creature (which is never seen again) pounds and pounds on the heavy metal loading dock door when the entire front of the store could be entered in a second.
It goes on and on - just horrible. Never believable for a second and I don't mean the alien creatures, I mean the script for the behavior of the characters. If you enjoy good suspense or horror, avoid this. There is a 25 minute segment (starting about 60 minutes in) that has good action but the rest is bad. The ending has been thoroughly debated and whether you like it or not, it is totally obvious.