Did not live up to my expectations, but still a good enough movie.

Rating: 6/10 (23 November 2007)

I guess I expected perfection from the guy who brought us "The Shawshank Redemption" and "The Green Mile", and this movie was by no means perfect. However, it was a very entertaining horror movie with good characters, and even a few scares.
After several strange accidents, a mist begins coming in from the mountains. All the residents of the town go to the local grocery store to get their supplies as the mist, and military roll through this little town. The mist eventually gets to this grocery store, and after a death, people realize that this mist has creatures in it. A large, eclectic group of people waits in the store while the mist waits for them. It sounds pretty stupid but it's actually very good. The direction was fantastic, and even though this wasn't mile a minute scares, it was still very tense throughout, while still managing to have a great sense of humor. The characters were exactly what you'd expect from a Frank Darabount adaptation of Stephen King's work; there was a wide range of characters, each (of the main) well developed and with their own unique personality. My huge gripe with the film in the end, was the end, which I did not like (and won't give away). But overall, the idea of making an entire horror movie in one place was scary enough and gave the audience an intimate feel with the settings, and this was a success, but not a huge standout film.
My rating: ** 1/2 out of ****. 122 mins. R for violence and language.