Should've called it The Missed

Rating: 5/10 (29 March 2008)

Stephen King must really have run out of ideas. The Mist could have made a nice hour of television rather than a full movie. The dialogue was stilted and way over the top, the acting was more wooden than the store shelves. Personally I found it so hard to connect with any of the characters that I had to look at the DVD box for their names and even then I didn't care.
Let me sum up the plot for you if you're considering wasting your time or money on this thing.
Man with dubious relationship to wife and child goes shopping the day after a storm. Fog rolls in and death comes with it. Something with tentacles eats the world's dumbest bag-boy and five-minutes later anarchy and religion break out. A couple of deaths later and a brave group heads into the mist in a 4x4. They drive for about five more minutes before they run out of gas and off themselves - mostly.
The film isn't a total loss, the monsters look creepy enough and the mist is scary in it's ominous fogginess but there really isn't a lot here to keep your attention. The characters are little more than shadows of archetypes who stray so far from the obvious that a GPS and a trail of crumbs couldn't lead them back to reason.
If you truly want to see a masterful work of tentacled horror then rent Tremors. No stupid fog, no ridiculous alternate-reality, no insipid actors mouthing lines that put even them asleep.