A great film for the thinking viewers

Rating: 10/10 (19 October 2008)

This movie was a total surprise for me. To be honest I was prepared to watch an average pop corn like thriller. But instead "the Mist" is a film that goes far bellow the surface of the basic script. So we have a bunch of people trapped within a supermarket that is surrounded by a mysterious and deathly mist. They hear screams of death coming from the mist whereas they become witnesses of illogical incidents that alternate their understanding of the reality. So from the beginning of the movie the viewer comes up with this situation. The success of the director is that he avoids the unnecessary use of scenes of splatter and of typical horror but he focus in escalating the suspense and the essence of mysterious. Soon you feel like you (the viewer)are trapped in the store and you try to figure out what is going on. Shortly the greatest enemy may become the scared guy that is trapped with you in the store rather than the bizarre threat that comes from the mist. Also a great question arises about who is able and must lead the people in the store (see it also in a larger scale where the trapped people in the store is the today's society).
I was fascinated from the script, amazed from the acting and impressed from the direction of Frank Darabont. This movie is a must for the viewer that wants to think after the film about the human nature and its rationality of its behavior under extreme circumstances and also for that viewer that wants to see a great mysterious story. By the way the ending of the film may be voted in the future as on of the top endings in the film's history.