"The Mist" delivers

Rating: 7/10 (17 March 2009)

I had low expectations for this based on "The Green Mile" collaboration between King and Darabont, which was awful. I was more than pleasantly surprised. "The Mist" is a pretty good modern horror film, even if it has a lot of flaws.
After a violent storm, several locals of a tiny Maine town head to the local grocery store, and they get trapped inside by a massive cloud of mist. Psychological fear and paranoia grow, we start to see that gross monsters are out there, and there's more than just that terror to be afraid of.
A lot of people criticized the ending as disappointing, but I loved it. It was unpredictable and it wasn't catering to the feel-good endings we almost always get from Hollywood. It helped make the movie great. The cast was good, too, especially Thomas Jane. The creatures CGI could also have been better. Otherwise, this is one of the better horror movies in recent years.