review
Kiefer's looking for a way out of 'Mirrors'.
I ended up watching this because my brother-in-law knows I enjoy scary movies and Kiefer, so he rented this for me. Very nice of him. Kiefer was nice to look at, and that's the best thing I can say about this.
This was a painful movie to watch. Terrible plotting and it dragged because you know what the characters are going to say next. Almost every scene felt like I already saw it a dozen times in other movies. Take for example, a scene of Sutherland driving along the highway, where at this stage of the film he's already spooked and paranoid. Suddenly he sees something scary in his rear view mirror. In a flash the vision is gone BUT the audience can't even catch a breath from that moment because OH NO! another "shocker" moment immediately follows when Kiefer swerves and almost gets hit by a MACK TRUCK in the opposite lane which just happens to appear and is headed straight for him.
AAARGH.
That really made me want to beat the person who decided to put that 'shocker' into the film. I mean really. How many mil did that person get for that little creative nugget?
I laughed a few times at parts where it wasn't intended for laughs. Usually I laughed whenever Kiefer said 'Shit!' or 'Goddamit!', because I kept adding my own lines of-- "Goddammit... I can't believe I signed to do this movie!"
The only other time I laughed was when he did a 'Jack Bauer' and pulled a gun on a nun. Yep, I said nun.
The story was all around lame.They tried to go for some intense creepiness during the parts where they focused on the history of the cursed mirrors and the person responsible for it by going all Sam Raimi/Evil Dead.
Nope. Sorry. It wasn't working on me, in fact I was saying " I'll swallow your soul!!" instead of getting the chills.
Oh, and why is it that whenever a city character visits someone from the backwoods, the backwoods character always looks like he's an inbred and his clothes haven't been washed since 1938?
Again with the AAAARGGGHHH.
I ended up watching this because my brother-in-law knows I enjoy scary movies and Kiefer, so he rented this for me. Very nice of him. Kiefer was nice to look at, and that's the best thing I can say about this.
This was a painful movie to watch. Terrible plotting and it dragged because you know what the characters are going to say next. Almost every scene felt like I already saw it a dozen times in other movies. Take for example, a scene of Sutherland driving along the highway, where at this stage of the film he's already spooked and paranoid. Suddenly he sees something scary in his rear view mirror. In a flash the vision is gone BUT the audience can't even catch a breath from that moment because OH NO! another "shocker" moment immediately follows when Kiefer swerves and almost gets hit by a MACK TRUCK in the opposite lane which just happens to appear and is headed straight for him.
AAARGH.
That really made me want to beat the person who decided to put that 'shocker' into the film. I mean really. How many mil did that person get for that little creative nugget?
I laughed a few times at parts where it wasn't intended for laughs. Usually I laughed whenever Kiefer said 'Shit!' or 'Goddamit!', because I kept adding my own lines of-- "Goddammit... I can't believe I signed to do this movie!"
The only other time I laughed was when he did a 'Jack Bauer' and pulled a gun on a nun. Yep, I said nun.
The story was all around lame.They tried to go for some intense creepiness during the parts where they focused on the history of the cursed mirrors and the person responsible for it by going all Sam Raimi/Evil Dead.
Nope. Sorry. It wasn't working on me, in fact I was saying " I'll swallow your soul!!" instead of getting the chills.
Oh, and why is it that whenever a city character visits someone from the backwoods, the backwoods character always looks like he's an inbred and his clothes haven't been washed since 1938?
Again with the AAAARGGGHHH.
posted by kegn_15 at
11:33 AM
|
4 comments
