Is it me? or are critics getting more happy?

Rating: 1/10 (25 November 2008)

I saw the trailer to this film, and thought it wasn't worth watching, it looked mainstream,'cheesy' and stereotypical. But then my friend rented it and on the DVD cover it had great reviews from critics such as Empire and it stated that the ending was spectacular! I should've trusted my instincts. One critic said that this movie had more originality than a thousand Saws, they had the audacity to say that, granted Saw as a series isn't very good but the first was very original and fresh. This movie was far from that, It basically poorly combined several sub-horrors together(Zombies,Disasters,Aliens). There are so many scenes that you have seen before, i saw elements of Silent Hill, Evolution, War of the worlds etc all tastelessly wound together. And with each of these scenes you could see what the director(brilliant director btw) tried to do but failed. The horror the film relies on is Jumping scares and awful special Fx which is very common in today's modern films (hence why The ring, which instead focused on developing an eerie atmosphere, was so successful.) The plot itself just tried to cram it's events in as fast as possible leaving no time for development, especially for it's characters(who remain one-dimensional throughout)and so none of it is plausible it's just sloppy. The supposedly 'brilliant' ending, which was the one factor that kept me watching the film, was such a let down, i'm so glad i didn't pay to watch this because it really isn't what a lot of reviews have made it out to be,in fact the mist relies on it's ending to support the overall outlook the audience has on the film, but it really isn't genuine and is completely plastic, it just makes you realize that it was done sheerly for shock value and i think it was unsuccessful even at that. I haven't used many examples and i really wanted to but i didn't want to have any spoilers. I do recommend people watch this just to see how terrible it is, but if you want to watch a good horror, stay clear of this, it's yet another mainstream movie that relies on old and cheap tactics that producers feel safe using because they don't want to experiment in case of a financial flop. Watch silent hill or the orphanage if you want to see a true twenty-first century horror.