Simply amazing

Rating: 10/10 (22 April 2008)

Wow! Never has a movie captured the human spirit so well. The Mist is an allegory on the world we live in and the humans that inhabit it. The script is intelligent, thought provoking, frightening, relevant and without compromise.
Its all about the fear we inflict upon ourselves and others, and what fear makes us do when we cannot see through the mist in extreme situations. This is by far the best horror/sci-fi movie I have seen in a decade. Frank Darabont keeps you on the edge of your seat with characters that might seem stereotypical, and is exactly that, in order for them to represent all humans and all movements in society. After a slow build up with a few underwhelming CGI effects the movie really gets going and the effects get more and more convincing. There was one terrific and scary scene after the other that impressed me immensely since there was no underlying score to put you in a certain mood. They just work. Simply brilliant! Thank you Darabont for having the guts to give us this uncompromising thought provoking masterpiece in a time where studios only think of cost and benefit - flooding us with predictable by the numbers mainstream flicks.