Run of the mill sci/fi horror stuff

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2008)

While this movie wasn't terrible,it wasn't that great either.It was just another average stop in a long sad road to find well done horror movies.I'm never sure how run of the mill stuff like Jessica Simpson,Justin Timberlake and this movie get such rave reviews but to each his own I guess.
After a storm moves thru a small town a bunch of people end up in a grocery store trying to stock up on some supplies when a mysterious mist descends over the town.The people in the store soon find out that this isn't an ordinary mist but one that contains all sorts of mean critters.They struggle to survive and figure out just what has happened while trying to keep the meanies from the mist from getting inside.
Now the movie has a interesting plot being based on a Stephen King story but it doesn't always carry the plot so well.The action lags at times and there is way too much jabbering by the required religious nut-case,played by Marcia Gay Harden,that Hollywood always seems feel a movie like this needs.The actors are all pretty good ,you'll see several familiar faces among the crowd in the store.The characters themselves were pretty clichéd however,like I said a religious nut is only one of the time worn characters in this movie.You'll also see the good ol' redneck boys,the angry black man,nervous shaky guy,nerdy guy who is really a Clint Eastwood underneath,biker dude,spunky old woman ,well you get the picture.
The gore is pretty sparse but well done when it's there.The creatures themselves were pretty much a big let down....I've seen their likes in other movies of this type and an unoriginal monster really ticks me off....it's my horror movie pet peeve I guess.And the so-called 'surprise ending' was totally telegraphed cause I've seen the same type ending in other movies of this type too.If it sounds like I've seen this movie before ,I have,at least bits and pieces of it in lots of other horror movies.
If you've not seen lots of horror movies this one will be pretty good for you I suppose.But if you're like me and have seen hundreds of these things you'll figure out that this ones brings nothing new to the table and even worse brings a lot of worn out clichés from other better done movies.I want a movie to make me love it or hate it and this did neither.It was just sort of there.