This is the 2007 adaptation of a Stephen King novela by Frank Darabont, who has turned adapting Stephen King stories into a full career. Considering how bad Stephen King movies are when King adapts the material himself, maybe he is just out to prove that it can be done well.
The story: a group of people find themselves trapped in a grocery store by a strange mist that seems to have creatures inside it that are killing people.
So was it good? Um...kind of.
The story is more character based, focusing on the small town people and how they react to the strange mist. It seemed early on that it was an alagory for how people deal might a terrorist attack -- the uncertainty, the turning on each other, etc. This part was boring. We've seen a lot of it before and there just isn't anything new here. The doubt, then a monster shows up but only a couple people see it so most people still don't believe, etc. Eventually we get more monsters, which is okay, but doesn't really elevate this much. In fact, a lot of it felt closer to an EVIL DEAD movie than a Darabont film.
Still, for the most part it was enjoyable, but for some reason Darabont chose to have a dark ending. Like really dark. Depressing even to me. I don't know why. The main part of the story didn't feel like it was driving to such a hopeless ending. I think Darabont could have done better by watching the EVIL DEAD movies a few times more. The movie could have been a lot better if it were pushed in that direction.
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