Loved it but not the ending

Rating: 9/10 (15 September 2008)

Director Frank Darabont did a really nice job on this film. I thought it was very creepy and for most of the film you have a feeling that you are trapped in some hellish mess and like the characters you are unaware of the reason this is happening.
Love Stephen King his books are some of my favorites but unfortunately I think Mr King has problems ending some of his literature and the directors who tackle the project seem to have problems ending the film also. Even directors who obviously hated the ending change them up a bit in the films still lack the conclusive and powerful ending. The ending here is no different than most of the films based on Kings work. It always seems to fall into a non-intelligent spiral of what the heck was that.
We have a group of people who are fighting for there very lives threw out this beautiful production then right at the end all they can think to do is ... -spoiler-
... kill each other? I'm sorry this isn't what would have happen to anyone who has fought so long and hard to stay alive. This isn't the actions of a survivor.
The real story: At the end as the car is running out of fuel our survivors look at each other and jokingly say "looks like we are walking the rest of the way" knowing if something goes wrong the father still has a few shots in the pistol to be used on themselves instead of dieing a gruesome death. The group staying close together moves down the road slowly without making a noise a long time passes the car far behind them now when suddenly a huge monster emerges from the "fading" mist. The creature poised to attack rears up to make a deadly strike as the father looks down at his child. When suddenly an A10 warthog comes screaming in, auto cannon blazing blowing the deadly creature into a mass of jello. The mist clears and the army trucks begin moving down the road one stops to assist and our heroes have survived to tell the tale.
That's what I think of when I see this film not the crap ending that was actually used.