An almost total waste of my precious time

Rating: 2/10 (27 November 2009)

This movie is the perfect example of all that goes wrong in Hollywood lately.
The plot is perfect: a mysterious mist appears out of nowhere, carrying lots of creatures from another dimension. Surely, a very promising start with potential for a great fantasy/horror movie.
What do we find instead? An incredibly slow development -the story takes about an hour to start-, overacted and two-dimensional characters engaging in unrealistic and random behaviour, long and boring dialogues that lead nowhere, and a handful of CGI scenes trying to cover all the mess.
This isn't a horror movie at all. It's just another nonsensical gore/action movie with the doubtful honor of having a very promising start and an incredibly disappointing...everything else. Instead of exploring any the exciting paths the script could have taken, it sticks to the most uninteresting, unimaginative and well-worn storyline. With a such a good idea for a movie it's almost like if they did it on purpose.
It makes me wonder why do they spend millions of dollars in CGI if they can't even find a decent screenwriter to make the film appealing to real horror fans, or at least to anybody who goes to the movies to see more than just another chiched film about some monsters killing people.