Deadly mist and breakdown of people.

Rating: 9/10 (27 November 2007)

The Mist was a lot better than I thought when looking at 2 trailers. I don't like most of Stephen King's movies. The only one's I like are Carrie, The Shining, and Pet Cemetery is OK. I'm definitely adding this to my horrors. The Mist itself contains several species of unknown monsters. I'll try not to spoil too much on what some of them look like.
The main character played by Thomas Jane as David Drayton is painting at night when a storm comes. He hides in a cellar with his wife Stephanie and young son Billy. The storm destroyed part of the families's house and their boat house. He goes over to his neighbor Brent Norton over a dispute of a fallen tree caused by the storm. These two you can tell do not get along, but David does him a favor by driving him to a store with him to repair both of their homes. Your introduced a little to some other towns people in the store. But a few minutes later mist goes in fast over the whole town. A man comes in with a bleeding nose running franticly in the store telling everyone someone took away his friend in the mist, not knowing what it was.
This is where all their troubles get complex. It's what I appreciate about this film is so many complications, the creatures themselves come in different sizes, none seem to be able to be dealt with in the same way. These creatures seem only interested in people for nothing but food, all animal instinct. There is a cause to these creatures, but I won't spoil that.
David tries leading the people, since many of them are looking for some direction of what to do in this situation. Laruie Holden as Amanda Dumfries, who is a teacher in town, helps David take care of his son, and talks to him. I think when David and Amanda talked in between defending themselves against the creatures it helped keep some of his sanity. Ollie, who works at the store, helps quite a bit, and is a great help to David too.
Unfortunately as the monsters kill off people, it causes panic and fear. An extremist of Christinity Mrs. Carmody uses a few quotes from her bible to try to convince everyone to listen to her, or the creatures will continue coming after them. I don't think they're trying to get on bashing the Christian religion. I know it's popular in most Hollywood movies and TV. I take it a lot of the towns folks are religious too, and not twisting it to Mrs. Carmodie's version. But they're afraid, and she's the only one giving explanations. So now the people start turning into a threat to each other. David and the few with him do not have much of a choice to stay in the store, with people going insane.
I like the whole situation, not everyone agrees what to do being trapped in the store. The few creatures they see cause panic and fear, but there are probably many more types they haven't seen. Some think it's god's judgement, being told by Mrs. Carmody. Fear is making everyone make their choices, even David and his group make their own choices out of fear. And not every action David does always works out. It's very hard to predict what happens to everyone.
The ending itself I thought was great. I know a lot of people may not like it, but there is irony and a little moral at the end. Definitely not a cheap tacked on ending. The book's ending I've heard is different, more open ended. And Stephen King movies, though I may not like most of them, usually doesn't have everything work out wonderfully in the end for everyone. This movie has a lot of suspense, plenty of dialogue, and gives a fear of the unknown of what's coming next, and fear of what anyone can become in that situation.