Seil
11-26-2011, 11:52 PM
...I ...uh ...I don't really have a lot to say on this one. It stars Keifer Sutherland, of 24 fame (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ13303E738)? Paula Patton is hot? (http://www.google.ca/search?q=Paula+Patton&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvnsol&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ML3RTr-SK8HmiALk64DXCw&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1366&bih=625) Really... um... mediocre.
My brother, last year, decided to watch a horror flick for every day of October, then review them each day. He led up the scariest of them all, Sex And The City. Now, he made some post on Facebook, wondering about whether or not Mirrors 2 was going to be as good as the original. I just watched the original. It's not good.
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u59/Poetisch/mirrors.jpg
That's not to say that it's bad, it's just... in between. The movie opens with a security guard running away from something, ending up in a subway station. He finds himself in a locker room, with a big mirror on one end. The lockers all open, and the mirrors on the inside of the locker doors face him. He walks over to the big wall mirror and apologizes to it. He polishes it, but it cracks under his hands. He picks up a piece that falls, forlorn, but watches as his reflection cuts its own throat with it. As his reflection slits its throat, the same wound appears on the crying man. (It's a lot less good than it sounds.)
c7byl_mAaOE
That's the way this movie rolls: there's a lot of really well though out, poorly executed scenes. The writer has to be kicking the director. Keifer Sutherland plays a detective of the NYPD who suffered a bit of a breakdown after killing someone... it's not really explored. He just is, okay!? Anyway, he's living at his sister's place, apart from his estranged wife and kids. His wife and... you know what? McDonald's characters have better characterization. I can empathize: man in household suffers from terrible occurence, starts drinking, leaves household, tension, whatever. You don't have to explain it. That doesn't make for good drama! Don't explain it! Don't tell me he's sad by telling me he's sad. Show me he's sad.
The whole plot has to do with Sutherland leaving, or being fired, or whatever from NYPD because he killed someone. He then lives with his sister, estranged from his wife and kids. In order to see his children, he puts himself on a drug to quit his drinking, and gets a job as a security guard in an abandoned, dilapidated mall. Now, the mall used to be a hospital what with crazy doctors. But then it was a mall. Anyways, there's a demon in the mirrors of the mall, that... um... used to be mental illness. ...Yeah.
Explanation is all that this movie gets across. I wasn't kidding about the writer kicking the director thing. This movie has a lot of questionably good actors, they just don't utilize their acting talents. There's a lot of good moments, but that's all they are. Moments.
This gets a thumbs down, not just because it's not a good horror movie, but because it's a bad movie whose segments are done better in other movies. It's got potential, lets see about Mirrors 2.
My brother, last year, decided to watch a horror flick for every day of October, then review them each day. He led up the scariest of them all, Sex And The City. Now, he made some post on Facebook, wondering about whether or not Mirrors 2 was going to be as good as the original. I just watched the original. It's not good.
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u59/Poetisch/mirrors.jpg
That's not to say that it's bad, it's just... in between. The movie opens with a security guard running away from something, ending up in a subway station. He finds himself in a locker room, with a big mirror on one end. The lockers all open, and the mirrors on the inside of the locker doors face him. He walks over to the big wall mirror and apologizes to it. He polishes it, but it cracks under his hands. He picks up a piece that falls, forlorn, but watches as his reflection cuts its own throat with it. As his reflection slits its throat, the same wound appears on the crying man. (It's a lot less good than it sounds.)
c7byl_mAaOE
That's the way this movie rolls: there's a lot of really well though out, poorly executed scenes. The writer has to be kicking the director. Keifer Sutherland plays a detective of the NYPD who suffered a bit of a breakdown after killing someone... it's not really explored. He just is, okay!? Anyway, he's living at his sister's place, apart from his estranged wife and kids. His wife and... you know what? McDonald's characters have better characterization. I can empathize: man in household suffers from terrible occurence, starts drinking, leaves household, tension, whatever. You don't have to explain it. That doesn't make for good drama! Don't explain it! Don't tell me he's sad by telling me he's sad. Show me he's sad.
The whole plot has to do with Sutherland leaving, or being fired, or whatever from NYPD because he killed someone. He then lives with his sister, estranged from his wife and kids. In order to see his children, he puts himself on a drug to quit his drinking, and gets a job as a security guard in an abandoned, dilapidated mall. Now, the mall used to be a hospital what with crazy doctors. But then it was a mall. Anyways, there's a demon in the mirrors of the mall, that... um... used to be mental illness. ...Yeah.
Explanation is all that this movie gets across. I wasn't kidding about the writer kicking the director thing. This movie has a lot of questionably good actors, they just don't utilize their acting talents. There's a lot of good moments, but that's all they are. Moments.
This gets a thumbs down, not just because it's not a good horror movie, but because it's a bad movie whose segments are done better in other movies. It's got potential, lets see about Mirrors 2.