The Mist: Dogville meets War of the Worlds

Rating: 5/10 (31 May 2008)

** SPOILER ALERT ** Seriously, take war of the worlds and cross it with dogville and you get this movie. Except it's not as good as either. The acting is uneven at best, and the special effects are crude. The only time that the special effects look good is when the mist obscures the sight of badly-done computer graphics.
OK, am I being too harsh? Some people out there will no-doubt become fans of this movie. Why? Because of the "deep" ending. I heard from everyone, "oh, the ending really shocked me"...so I sat through two hours of drivel in hopes that the ending would pull it together.
Only one problem: the ending was completely unbelievable. After all the pain in the ass that everyone went through, it is highly unlikely that they would have given up so easily. There wasn't even any impending threat to their lives...just some distant sounds of shrieking monsters. One of the key tests to determine whether an act is realistic is to know that you might have done the same thing in the same situation. None of us would, so the ending is total BS.
I think the director knew that he had a crap movie on his hands, and used the last scene to try to make the movie memorable...which it succeeds in doing. However, I'll always remember it as the dumb "horror" movie with the completely implausible ending.