Promising but poor really.

Rating: 3/10 (14 April 2008)

I went to see it because it got a 7.6 on IMDb, which I regularly use to get a feel of how good the film my be. It's not! Some people may enjoy the mindless, yet pretentious, spooky movie but if you enjoy something that makes any sense then stay away from this. I enjoyed the Green Mile, Frankenstein and Shawshank, but really not this one. OK, nice little town, storm comes. After the storm we see some suspicious military about and suddenly a seemingly deadly mist comes in and people are trapped in a supermarket. Nice. Seriously, good beginning. What looked promising was actually the peak of the film. It's all downhill from there. I agree with some of the posts here. There are far too many token human "deep" elements. The religious fanatic starts off being incredibly annoying. It gets really ridiculous and even offensive to the viewers intelligence towards the end *spoiler now* as she converts the majority of the people into blood thirsty maniacs. The worst culminates with *spoiler now* "we want the boy!" - knife pointing. The ending would be, or could be made to be, dramatic but it only brought laughter to the audience. Surely if they would go and do something like that then they might just wait another tad bit no?!