The Mist - Movie Review

The Mist is an interesting and unique story based on Stephen King's story.

The premise is very simple. A large mist cloud rolls in to cover an entire town and with it comes monsters beyond your imagination. The story revolves around a group of people who all got stuck in the local grocery store together when the mist "came to town".

The story is very straight forward and shows the breakdown of people in an uncomfortable situation under stress and great fear. People change sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. It is a story about hope and survival even in circumstances that involve incarnate evil. Never give up hope, never stop trying to survive.

The acting is good, not great by any means and as all Stephen King movies, the monsters are a little over the top in hard-to-believe fantastical style. Stephen King's monsters are normally child hood monsters such as dangerous octopus tentacles or giant spiders, or giant buzzing insects. Even when the goofiness factor sets in this movie is still a good watch and worth the loss of your life hours spent watching it.

Not for Kids. A lot of violence and scary monster blood and guts.