Mirrors? Have you seen it? Did you Like It?!
Question: Mirrors!? Have you seen it!? Did you Like It!?
I have, and I thought it was pretty good!. Original!.Www@Enter-QA@Com
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Let me start off by saying: I was stoked about seeing Mirrors!. I liked High Tension, and I loved Hills Have Eyes!. Both were awesome, awesome movies!.!.!.!.especially Hills Have Eyes!. So of course, again, I was stoked to watch Mirrors, because it sounded interesting, it looked scary, and the guy who made to great horror movies made it!. What happened when I finished Mirrors, you ask!? I was left disappointed as hell!. Very, very disappointed!. Which sucks because it started off so scary and so interesting!.
Kiefer Sutherland plays Ben, a down and out ex-cop who's battling an alcohol problem and the stigma of killing a man while in the line of duty!. While waiting to be reinstated into the police force, he takes a job as a night watchmen at an old, burned down, creepy-*** shopping mall!. Of course, once there, he notices insanely scary and creepy things going on inside, particularly with the mirrors inside!. He starts seeing disturbing things in the mirrors: People burning alive, grotesque people lying on the floors, crying for help, things of that nature!. Since Ben is so unstable, we're not sure what's going on, at least I wasn't!. I wasn't sure if all this scary stuff was in his head, or if there was a genuine explanation for all of it!. Well, I was wishing that the former was true, because that would've made the movie that much scarier and that much edgier!. Instead, the latter was true!.
The movie has some really, really scary parts!.!.!.!.all of it is scary until they explain why everything's happening!. Then you're just left there thinking, "Well, that's not that scary anymore!." There's some really crazy gore effects, especially the opening scene and the scene with Amy Smart!. These parts, especially the Amy Smart scene, will make you cringe just a little bit!.
But after the first half, the half filled with mystery, intrigue, and scary, horrific moments, the movies take a turn down dumbass-idea boulevard:
SPOILER Ready for this!? The reason for the all the strange happenings in the movie, i!.e!., in the mirrors, is because of!.!.!.!.!.ready!?!.!.!.!.!.!.demonic forces!. No psychological reasons, which would've been cool and interesting, but because of stupid demonic forces that lived in the mirrors!. Even if they didn't go down the psychological route, they could've at least handled it better and made it interesting instead of just saying, "Bad s*** lives in the mirrors!. Jack Bauer's gonna take care of it!." When his wife starts believing him and when you know for sure he isn't just crazy and broken, that's when all the interest is sucked away!.
Everyone does a pretty good job with their roles, but since the movie doesn't get any deeper than "Bad stuff lives in the mirrors," there's not much to do with these characters, especially Ben, who's a pretty broken and messed up guy!. But as the second half comes along, you forget that he's a recovering alcoholic with a pill problem who may or may not be completely insane!. When there's no more doubt about his state-of-mind and sanity, the movie loses it's punch and mystery, at least I thought so!.
SOME MORE SPOILERS The movie takes a turn for the absolutely ridiculous when all the demonic forces in the mirrors manifest themselves in an old nun!. She pretty much turns into a freakin' licker from the Resident Evil games!. She starts crawling up walls, jumping off walls, and gets into a physical brawl with Kiefer Sutherland as he tries to shoot her!. She throws him through a freakin' brick wall, and he throws her like six feet away from him!. I was just thinking to myself, "What the hell am I watching!? Is it still the same movie!?" This part was so stupid it pretty much ruined the rest of the movie!. My God!. It was so stupid!.
I personally thought they could've done much more with the story instead of just saying "Bad things live in the mirrors!." It started out scary, suspenseful, and frightening, but then just ends up being corny and stupid!. The only thing that made the last half somewhat tolerable was the last few minutes, which was a little shocking and cool!. Loved the ending!.
But again, don't take this review as a definitive view on the movie!. Go watch it for yourself and you might end up liking it very much!. I didn't, even though I really, really wanted to!.
Score: 5 out of 10!.
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Kiefer Sutherland plays Ben, a down and out ex-cop who's battling an alcohol problem and the stigma of killing a man while in the line of duty!. While waiting to be reinstated into the police force, he takes a job as a night watchmen at an old, burned down, creepy-*** shopping mall!. Of course, once there, he notices insanely scary and creepy things going on inside, particularly with the mirrors inside!. He starts seeing disturbing things in the mirrors: People burning alive, grotesque people lying on the floors, crying for help, things of that nature!. Since Ben is so unstable, we're not sure what's going on, at least I wasn't!. I wasn't sure if all this scary stuff was in his head, or if there was a genuine explanation for all of it!. Well, I was wishing that the former was true, because that would've made the movie that much scarier and that much edgier!. Instead, the latter was true!.
The movie has some really, really scary parts!.!.!.!.all of it is scary until they explain why everything's happening!. Then you're just left there thinking, "Well, that's not that scary anymore!." There's some really crazy gore effects, especially the opening scene and the scene with Amy Smart!. These parts, especially the Amy Smart scene, will make you cringe just a little bit!.
But after the first half, the half filled with mystery, intrigue, and scary, horrific moments, the movies take a turn down dumbass-idea boulevard:
SPOILER Ready for this!? The reason for the all the strange happenings in the movie, i!.e!., in the mirrors, is because of!.!.!.!.!.ready!?!.!.!.!.!.!.demonic forces!. No psychological reasons, which would've been cool and interesting, but because of stupid demonic forces that lived in the mirrors!. Even if they didn't go down the psychological route, they could've at least handled it better and made it interesting instead of just saying, "Bad s*** lives in the mirrors!. Jack Bauer's gonna take care of it!." When his wife starts believing him and when you know for sure he isn't just crazy and broken, that's when all the interest is sucked away!.
Everyone does a pretty good job with their roles, but since the movie doesn't get any deeper than "Bad stuff lives in the mirrors," there's not much to do with these characters, especially Ben, who's a pretty broken and messed up guy!. But as the second half comes along, you forget that he's a recovering alcoholic with a pill problem who may or may not be completely insane!. When there's no more doubt about his state-of-mind and sanity, the movie loses it's punch and mystery, at least I thought so!.
SOME MORE SPOILERS The movie takes a turn for the absolutely ridiculous when all the demonic forces in the mirrors manifest themselves in an old nun!. She pretty much turns into a freakin' licker from the Resident Evil games!. She starts crawling up walls, jumping off walls, and gets into a physical brawl with Kiefer Sutherland as he tries to shoot her!. She throws him through a freakin' brick wall, and he throws her like six feet away from him!. I was just thinking to myself, "What the hell am I watching!? Is it still the same movie!?" This part was so stupid it pretty much ruined the rest of the movie!. My God!. It was so stupid!.
I personally thought they could've done much more with the story instead of just saying "Bad things live in the mirrors!." It started out scary, suspenseful, and frightening, but then just ends up being corny and stupid!. The only thing that made the last half somewhat tolerable was the last few minutes, which was a little shocking and cool!. Loved the ending!.
But again, don't take this review as a definitive view on the movie!. Go watch it for yourself and you might end up liking it very much!. I didn't, even though I really, really wanted to!.
Score: 5 out of 10!.
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I didn't think it was that bad, there were a lot of jumpy parts some girl sitting at the back of the theatre actually screamed a serious, loud, high pitched scream!.!.!.Www@Enter-QA@Com