So-so waste of time

Rating: 5/10 (29 January 2008)

I just left "The Mist" with mixed feelings. The acting isn't bad, the FX aren't bad, the story isn't bad, nothing is really bad about this movie. Except perhaps for the ending, that obviously is a matter of taste judging by the discussions going on here, I didn't like it. The problem is, nothing is really good or even great about this movie, either:
Rarely did I feel true suspense during these 2 hours, most of the time it felt somewhat empty. The obvious "comment on human nature" does work out somewhat, at least I really disliked the "preacher" character. Other than that the "comment" is one done at least a dozen times, and half of the time better than in this movie. Furthermore the movie failed to capture me in any significant way, perhaps mostly due to the dialogs, which sometimes seemed really stupid or incoherent. Overall it was an "okay" 2 hours to spend, but I've definitely seen far better movies than this one and somehow I regret seeing this one even more than a really really awful movie, because it just left me "empty": nothing to feel good or think about and nothing to be really angry about.