The Mist (2007) 3/10

The Mist is the newest film and newest Stephen King adaptation from director Frank Darabont. He also directed the amazing Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, both King adaptations. When the original trailers came out, i thought, well that looks like crap. It got great reviews however so I finally decided to check it out. Looks like my first reaction was the correct one.

The Mist is about a small town overcome by a mysterious mist. Dangerous creatures dwell within the mist and a group of people take refuge in a local super market. Should they go or should they stay? How should they protect themselves? Who should lead? Why does this movie have to suck so bad?

The film is directed very well with a wonderful building of tension and suspense. I have no qualms there. The problem is with the terrible script. Our main hero is a local artist who makes his living painting movie posters. Not the local blue collar guys stuck in the grocery store, nor the military servicemen, nor the manager of the store, or any number of plausible leaders. See, in a crisis, usually artists don't fair too well. Their delicate sensibilities that allow them to be artists don't do well with huge life changing events. That was the first major strike in my mind and quite an elitist and implausible decision. Sure, the sensitive artist becomes the hero, not the guys who spend their whole lives leading other men. The sissy artist is the badass. Of course all the blue collar workers are portrayed as nothing more then ignorant bumpkins, meanwhile these are the guys that would have more then likely served in the military, where they would have dealt with huge life changing events on a daily basis. Hell we don't even see the military personnell until the third act where they can be blamed for the mist situation. So the military is an evil scapegoat huh? I guess King forgot about WWII as well as desert storm. Yet another elitist decision that brings the whole film down. Finally and most severely misrepresented are the Christians in the film. Nothing but superstitious, cruel, ignorant, monsters that do nothing but persecute members of the group. What a crock of shit. Yeah the Christians would be the one's who would be dealing with the situation best. Faith has a way of helping one deal with difficult situations. Of course its the atheistic artists that will always save the day. Not the hard working blue collar folks, not the hard working servicemen and women, and certainly not the faithful. The mist is nothing but an elitist liberal classist atheist piece of garbage. The CGI blows hard as well as the actual plot of the film. The choices and actions of the characters is totally unbelievable and offensive.

Shame on you Frank Darabont. Shame on you Stephen King.

Overall - 3/10