Movie Review: The Mist
I caught up with a friend for lunch at The Old Bailey and we decided to go and see a movie. It was a choice between this and Jumper.
The action in the movie was almost as good as the action between some patrons in the cinema.
About 20 minutes into the movie, a teenage boy at the back of the cinema started talking on his mobile phone, not bothering to get up and go outside, so another guy a few rows in front, got up and tried to usher the kid out of the cinema. Obviously the teen didn't want to go and he and the older guy had words, threatening to knock each other's lights out. The older guy then physically dragged the kid out. All in all it was over in 5 minutes, but entertaining nonetheless.
Plot: David Drayton and his young son Billy are among a large group of terrified townspeople trapped in a local grocery store by a strange, otherworldly mist. David is the first to realize that there are things lurking in the mist...deadly, horrifying things...creatures not of this world.
Survival depends on everybody in the store pulling together...but is that possible, given human nature? As reason crumbles in the face of fear and panic, David begins to wonder what terrifies him more: the monsters in the mist - or the ones inside the store, the human kind, the people that until now had been his friends and neighbours?
2 comments:
the Mist is a thinker for sure, pretty good all around, except a lot of the character conflict was really predictable...
is it me, or did those insect-like aliens have human teeth?
I thought it was very much like Dean Koontz'd novel The Taking.
Those insects were a bit freaky, but I didn't really take much notice of their teeth.
I didn't much like the spider like thingy's - they gave me the creeps!
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