Good Horror flick with an unreal ending.

Rating: 7/10 (10 May 2008)

This is one of those movies you think will be stupid but turns out to be pretty good. The good: Excellent acting. Superb graphics and special effects. Fresh idea. Good interaction between characters. Good attempt at representing religious zealousness.(Though a little overblown.)
The bad: Some of the characters were not allowed to evolve enough, particularly, Andre Braugher's role. I don't know if he wanted to bow out of the role or what but there was some good chemistry between him and Thomas Jane. The unreality of his role was stupid. The tentacle which dissolved was stupid and seemed to be thrown in to make it impossible for others in the cast to see it which helped the premise of no one believing them in the beginning. And the biggest mistake of this movie was when Thomas Jane assisted suicided the four other survivors with him, not to mention his son.HELLO!! It seems the director wanted this ending so bad he was willing to forget about reality. Lets face it, wouldn't you or any other sane person wait until the monsters were literally moments away from eating you before you killed yourself? Why go to all that work of escape to instantly kill yourself when the truck runs out of gas. Sometimes a little formula is good. The best ending would have been the five survivors being passed by the army vehicles and have one of the people transports have the people from the store in it. And as it passes by the five people from the escape stare them down as the store people cowered from their shame.