Truly Amazing.

Rating: 10/10 (23 November 2007)

Alright so from where i sat this movie was amazing. It stuck really well to the Stephen Kings story until the ending, for those who have read The Mist. I read it maybe a year ago, and loved it. But thats the Novella, to the movie.
The Mist is about a group of survivours who take shelter in a local grocery store, when a mist starts to consume the town and its surrounding area following a large storm. Like any group of people they, begin to divide off into their own smaller groups, some want to stay, others to go, and well some just take comfort in knowing it's Judgement Day. Which is exactly what SK does in his story. If you have ever seen George A Romero's Dawn of the Dead it's much like that but on a larger level based on people. Anyways strange monsters start to come out of the mist that has overrun the town and surrounding area. Now these monsters I thought would look cool and they did just not the way I expected. They had an old school cheesy effect to them, which was awesome, I read somewhere that Stephen King wanted the story to be a kind of drive-in theater type of movie. So cheesy monsters fits there. In the end the movie plays out life (2 or 3 days) in the store, between the groups. The ending I think is much better than SK's rather than leaving it totally open to the reader, its taken in a much more "Holy Cow" type ending. I won't give anything away but its good, and in shocking.
The acting is awesome, I love Tom Jane and he didn't disappoint me at all. The rest of the cast was incredible and played their roles very well. The boy who played "Big Bill" was amazing, I think he is very talented. The effects again were good. Now a lot of people think this is a jump from your seat horror but its NOT. So don't go in thinking you'll be scared, I read the story and didn't really feel like it was that kind of story where you're intended to be scared.
If you liked the novella, go see this, if you like SK go see this, if you like good cinema go see this. You won't be disappointed at all. For those who have read The Mist, expect a much, much, much different ending. This is where people get mad and say they hate the movie, expect it to be different and see if for what it is.
10/10. One of my favourite movies ever.