Pedestrian To The Point of Ponderous

Rating: 4/10 (1 October 2012)

This is nothing more than an average monster film with stereotypes and mega-stereotypes involved in a disastrous situation. You have seen this done many times and this is nothing new and the characterizations are frustratingly familiar.
The monsters are effective and scary enough but the tense predicament is pedestrian to the point of ponderous. The script is in trouble when you have one of the players lay out exactly what is going to happen and it happens exactly as stated. This is dumbed down and downright dumb. Not the intelligent, creative work of a movie-maker and story teller involved here.
There is not one surprise in the behavior of the participants or one twist that is fresh and fanciful. It is really a rather slim story, and that is mostly side stepped, and more insulting without insight than it ought to be. The ending is ridiculous and does not ring true to the characters and seems tacked on for shock. But it is, considering the rest of the unresolved plot, a typical, lazy way to make one think that it is oh so deep and oh so thought provoking. That voice far out there in the mist is Rod Serling...and he is not pleased.