I didn't like it. . .

Rating: 4/10 (9 April 2008)

This thriller left a lot to be desired. The trend in many movies seems to utilize poor lighting, bad camera angles, and a constant slight shaking of the camera. Supposedly this makes the movie more "real", I think it makes it more amateurish and overall more difficult to watch and enjoy. The Mist uses all of these. Plus it is absolutely cheerless, there is no comic relief at all.
The movie surrounds an artist (Thomas Jane) trying to protect his little son from The Mist, and the creatures that dwell within. They are trapped by The Mist in a grocery store with his skeptical neighbor(Andre Braugher), a Prohibitionist/Abolitionist era New England religious busybody (Marcia Gay Harden), and a host of other hysterical bunglers.
The most skillful and intrepid of those trapped in the store seems to be the meek-looking assistant manager, Ollie (Toby Jones).
This movie has all of the predictable themes of a horror movie: a religious nut; the unbelieving, angry skeptic who refuses to believe that there is any real danger until it is too late; the cute kid; etc.
*** possible spoiler *** The ending follows the Twilight Zone-ish "if only the hero waited another thirty seconds before his drastic, final action; things would have been all right". Not bad, but we have seen it before. Plus very, very sad.
Could have been better. 4 out of 10