Do not waste your time!

Rating: 1/10 (13 September 2009)

'The Mist' starts out well but will leave you literally angry that you were duped into wasting two hours of your life. This movie will leave you disgusted, and not in a good way.
I love horror films, despite the vast majority of them being generally sub-par when pitted against other genres. I will cheerfully forgive cheesy dialogue, tired clichés and wooden acting for the sake of just one good fright. I say all of this to put my review of 'The Mist' in some perspective: if it's even a little scary, I am easily pleased.
The Mist starts out pretty well - it's well acted, if formulaic, creature-feature stuff. The gore 'n' claw special effects are a little silly, but the storyline seems to promise better things to come.
There is nothing better to come. About halfway through the movie the plot devolves into an utterly ridiculous circus centered around the rantings of Marcia Gay Harden's religious lunatic. From there, it really goes downhill fast.
I will not include spoilers; suffice to say that the director suffers a significant lack of character. He sacrifices any redeeming elements of the film to indulge in some hokey, PC political point-scoring, which completely kills the movie. The final scene is as unbelievable as it is irritating - and it is really, really irritating.
To reiterate: 'The Mist' starts out well but will leave you literally angry that you were duped into wasting two hours of your life.