A Great Horror Movie and Definitely Worth Seeing! (My first review)

Rating: 8/10 (22 June 2013)

This is my first review on IMDb. Probably not a lot of people will find this review helpful, but know that I am no genius with reviews yet.
This was a great movie and had a great plot, since it was based off of Stephen King's "The Mist" novella. The acting was exceptional, especially for the kid actors, if any. It was really believable throughout the movie, except for one scene where everything sounded bad. I guess I'll start out with all of the general comments about the acting. Nathan Gamble and Thomas Jane made a good Father & Son relationship. It did make me cringe in some scenes though. Laurie Holden and Marcia Gay Harden did a great acting performance playing two people who dislike each other greatly. Toby Jones also did a great job acting as short but tough store bag-boy Ollie Weeks. The extras were also great in their own aspect. They looked frightened when they were supposed to and the lines they had, if any, were delivered just like they should be. Nathan Gamble was also in some other movies like The Hole, which he did a great job in, also. How is he so good at acting at only 10-13 years old?
Frank Darabont also did a great job directing and writing this film. He made it so that the viewers weren't given a headache from all the shakiness of found footage horror films, like V/H/S or the Blair Witch Project. And yet the camera wasn't completely still and zoomed in on important objects. The cinematographer of this movie did a fantastic job. Important objects were never lost, and it looked like someone was running behind them very steadily. By that I mean the camera angles.
But aside from the general comments on the movie, I'll say some specific stuff about the movie. One of my very few complaints is the actual 'Mist'. It looks like it had come out of a fog machine, and if you have no idea where the Mist came from, why would you go out in and not be poisoned? Better phrased, why would you risk it? If someone did go out there, I wouldn't want it to be me. The writing of the movie was also great, and had just the right lines for just the right actors.
Overall, I thought this was a fantastic Horror/Sci-Fi/Thriller movie and would definitely watch it again.