Not as good of representation of human nature as some say.

Rating: 4/10 (24 February 2010)

I'm not sure if it's because of Stephen King's name being affiliated with this movie, but the movie does get a little bit of hype. This movie is supposed to be about human nature. It's trying to show how humans would typically react to such a strange and awful event. For a movie that is trying to show human nature, it failed on many fronts. This movie is basically supposed to be "War of the Worlds" meets "Lord of the Flies". But Lord of the Flies was much better at showing human nature. Matter of fact, the children in Lord of the Flies showed more intelligence than the people in the Mist. I have been in survival situations before and can tell you that this movie doesn't do a good job of portraying humanity. It does have some truth to it, but plenty of fallacy. Here are my points for why this movie fails. 1. Mrs. Carmody. Yes, in crazy situations religious zealots will start preaching. But here's the thing. All of these people are scared and start becoming religious. Yet, do you see any of them praying? Nope. Not one. Just preaching. When religious people are scared, they start praying. Also, only a select few idiots would fall for her preachings about the end of the world. Most people in America know that she was missing 99% of the prophecies of the apocalypse. Even with a Bible present, nobody called her out on her errors. 2. The doubters (those who doubted there were monsters in the mist) claimed that a mine accident probably caused the deaths of people in the parking lot. Soooooooo everyone who goes outside afterward makes NO attempt at covering their mouths nor faces. Not one attempt. In the beginning a man dies within a few yards of the store. Instead of claim it was a monster, they say it was gasses. So they go outside without protection. Right. 3. Right from the beginning people wondered if this had something to do with the military. Trapped in the store are three military men. Nobody thinks about questioning these men until it's too late. Matter of fact, the military men don't even follow their training. Any soldier will tell you that these characters were wasted in the movie. They didn't use their training nor were they used as a resource. 4. Okay, so you think there are monsters in the mist killing people. Actually, now you KNOW they are killing people. So what do you do? You go outside, stand straight up, and walk incredibly slow to your next location. For crying out loud, even the soldier did this. Why? You are on the defense. Why the heck are you making yourself into a large slow-moving target? 5. The ending. I won't go into specifics. But the protagonists of the movie will do anything to survive. They are willing to take risks to survive. They will even kill other people in their way in order for them to escape. The ending was quite out of character for all of the protagonists. I understand the irony and purpose of the ending. But I would have expected that sort of ending to have happened to the people in the grocery store who stayed behind. Nope. Instead the protagonists broke character. The ending will make you very very angry. I promise.
I compare this movie, after seeing what it was really worth, to "30 days of Night". Great premise. Great suspense. Poor characters. Poor ending. Thanks for reading.