Just rent something else.

Rating: 3/10 (5 October 2009)

What can I say? I don't get scared by CG. In fact, films relying on CG generally don't entertain me. I like things you can touch. Having said that, this film would have been even more laughable if it been made with rubber beasties. This film had potential, but it felt like a TV movie with a TV script at times. The CG Monsters that we couldn't quite see were not interesting. I fully understand that we're supposed to see what the characters see, and feel a kind of "What on earth is that thing that I can't quite see properly?" feeling. But the only feeling I got was boredom.
Despite this, as so many of you have written before me, it does try to explore human nature in a "no-win" situation. Who are the heroes and who are the fools, how we deal with impending death and stuff. True, the ending was interesting, and kinda thought provoking. But calling it a horror is stretching it a little. I mean, it felt like a 50s monster flick like "Tarantula" or something, with over-sized lizards or Plasticine monsters. These films just play on our simplest of phobias, for example spiders and bugs, and then they fill in the gaps with "cheap shocks" that are just meant to make you jump out of your seat.
Before I finish moaning let's just think about "The Thing" from 1982. Most of you who wrote reviews before me probably failed to notice that at the start of "The Mist" we see the film poster for "The Thing" on the wall of the main character's workroom. Now then, "The Thing" had a tag line, it was "The Ultimate in Alien Terror," and at that time it was pretty close to the mark. If they were paying homage or trying to draw a comparison between these two films, I'm afraid the "The Mist" just pales into insignificance. The music, the atmosphere, the horror, the suspense, the creatures, the thrills, and the ending of "The Thing" were far superior in every way.
On the plus side, I doubt it'll be remade in 30 years time like "The Fog" from 1980. Actually, now that I'm really thinking about it, just go rent "The Fog" instead, it's far scarier.