Weather: Heavy Mist not Fog, stay indoors and see another movie

Rating: 5/10 (24 June 2012)

Fog was a much superior film, directed by John carpenter.
The Mist, at best merits about 1/2 hour in the Twilight Zone.
The Mist is created by some Army guys messing around with different dimensions resulting in a "mist" with giant bugs. The action centers around folks caught in a supermarket.
Far too much of the film is in the supermarket with inane dialog and a crazy fanatic bible thumper. It is supposed to represent "the human condition" but is totally predictable with all the people bitching a each other.
In reality, most folks come together in time of crisis and do not squabble over petty politics and polemics. Witness the floods in the mid west several years ago and how everyone helped everyone. Or witness the cooperative behavior of good folks during the tornadoes in southern Indiana last year.
Most crisis create cooperation not conflict.
The "religiosity" theme would have worked in the 50's but is lost in the modernity of the new millennium.
I can't believe that Darabont, who directed The Shawkshank Redemption, a truly great film, wasted his energy on this garbage. Yes the acting was really good, too bad no one had much to say. The usually scary tactics were played out as usual but the CGI bugs, were really not bad.
How this movie cost 26 million and takes place in basically one location, the supermarket, is beyond me. Don't tell me it cost 22 million in CGI.
It seems to take place in Portland, OR which could be better off with a "mist" to eliminate some of the smug, herbal groovy, sustainable religious folks.
Ending is unsatisfying, yet meant to be a "shocking" and "ironic" twist on a usual plot, but you could see it coming a mile away. Oh, and the music sound track at the ending is way overwhelming..they should have used something much less ponderous, like maybe Glassworks, by Phillip Glass. I hear that pseudo Monkish, Russian sound way too often over trivial concepts.
The Mist could easily be reedited to 1/2 hour and (Twilight zoned). I say, keep Frank in a prison not a supermarket to reveal his real talents.