This movie is yet another reflection of how bad CGI can ruin something special!

Rating: 6/10 (10 June 2008)

The acting is good, the intensity is good. The characters and the relation to them is excellent. The story is very good, and the ending is very original. The biggest downfall, which is very common these days is the bad use of CGI. Where suspense and horror could have been created by "not showing" what was in the mist would have been better in parts. For example, where aliens are shown amongst the mist, it is more scary and intense. If it was absolutely necessary to make some aliens completely visible, which i don't believe it was, then they could have used old fashioned creature effects or simply better CGI. The worst was the tentacles scene which made me laugh out loud. It was truly awful. Before that, i took this movie seriously. After it i couldn't help but notice the bad CGI. If that scene had had the guy pulled out into the mist by something unseen it would have been better. I really though progress had been made with CGI, note its excellent use in Transformers, but this really was poor! How can a film be scary with such fake looking monsters like that!! It reminded me of Dreamcatcher, which i thought had an intriguing and gripping storyline until the ridiculously pathetic CGI came into it. Please somebody stop the excessive use of CGI, its ruining our movies more than the excessive releases of identical ROMCOM movie plots