Movie Review: Stephen King’s-The Mist (2007)
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Starring: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden
Director: Frank Darabont
Writer(s): Stephen King and Frank Darabont
Studio: Dimension Films
Rating: R
Official Bar Score: 
Going into this film I was a bit skeptical as I had read from most sites that the film was good but at the same time TMB’s own Winston told me to avoid it. On the other hand the film is Frank Darabont’s third King adaptation and being as his first happens to be my favorite film “The Shawshank Redemption” I decided to give in. Let me just start by saying making books into movies is tricky business. Reason being you automatically are going to piss of fans of the book because you’ll always have that “it didn’t stay true to the book” half. While I haven’t read The Mist I do know that the film and book are as much different as they are alike, and to me that’s how it should be.
The film surrounds a small military town in Orgegon that is hit by a vicious storm and the next morning it becomes engulfed into a thick mist. It soon becomes apparent that something may be in the mist and several townsfolk are trapped in the store in a battle for their lives and their sanity. To say too much more would spoil a couple of key plot points.
The Mist exceeded my expectations right away, while the movie may not be over the top gory there is indeed some good scenes of body parts being ripped off and skin peeled away that really caught me off guard but in a good way. I was also surprised considering how many characters were involved how many of them the film was able to give you a feel for, which is no easy task in itself. I also liked the portrayal of human’s animalistic natures taking over when things get hectic.
On the negative side the creatures looked pretty cheesy and it was hard to buy the logic of some customers not believing the evidence right in front of their face and took the whole thing as a joke. I mean when you have a disaster of any type that claims life I don’t think people are going to be playing pranks in the middle of said disaster but that’s just me. Other than that there really wasn’t anything I could think of bad to say, I even liked the ending which was surprising because usually when endings are marketed as shocking I usually hate them but I liked the ending.
From start to finish The Mist was a pleasant surprise and further proof that Darabont is the only person who should adapt King novels to the big screen.
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Dude are you shitting me? The end of this movie crushed any chance of it being a 4 beer movie. 3 tops.
I liked the ending, wasn’t the way I would have done things but I understood the logic of the main character. Then again I’m also very partial to any ending that goes outside the box of what is a quote unquote “happy” or “typical” ending
I really liked this movie, yeah the ending wasn’t very moral and very tragic but not every story has a happy ending.
I really liked this movie. The ending was awesome. Personally, I would never kill myself, i would have sat in the car until death came and got me.
That is my point, I don’t anybody would kill themselves in that situation. If you are alive, why wouldn’t you keep fighting?
Everybody in the movie acted like a damn fool. Like Andre Braugher’s character not believing anything when it was all right in his face? Come on…
After a Re-Watch I realized that I like this movie even more, especially the end because it challenges a choice of morale that most people don’t agree with. I also don’t think that the creatures looked cheesy, I thought that they were very Lovecraftian and almost prehistoric. I love the route they took with these outer worldly beast. This movie really focuses on a fucked up situation that leave a large group of people at the hands of their own mercy. Like the Dr. said I also like the portrayal of people acting upon their animal instincts when backed against the wall.
The only thing I would change about this film, is Thomas Jane’s character, He would be Frank Castle and would have punished the Manson like crazy lady and her cult of followers. He wouldn’t of needed to make it to his truck for his guns because they would be strapped under his trench coat.