January 09, 2009
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Nuns don't care if you take them hostage.
Here's a tasty quote for the Region 1 DVD box art: Alexandre Aja's 2008 supernatural yawnfest Mirrors is one of the most illogical, nonsensical mainstream horror movies in recent memory. In fact, I could literally spend several unbilled man hours poking holes in its impossibly flimsy storyline, but what would be the point? The movie seems to exist in its own little microcosm, a surreal netherworld where character motivations, common sense, and basic storytelling take a backseat to cheap jump scares and savagely moronic third reel lunacy. Keifer Sutherland stars as former NYPD detective Ben Carson, a struggling alcoholic who's coping with the loss of his career, his family, and, apparently, his sanity. After taking a job as a night security guard at a crumbling department store, Ben begins to suspect that the mirrors he encounters during his daily bouts of self hatred are, in fact, looking back at him. Despite the mountain of flaws the film has stack against it, there are several effectively creepy scenes packed into the first half-hour of the flick, most of which consists of Ben wandering around the abandoned storefront with nothing more than a flashlight to guide him. However, once our hero begins his quest to unravel the unexpectedly boring mystery surrounding the origins of this reflective evil, everything starts to fall apart. Compared to the Korean original, Aja's lukewarm effort is just thick smoke and foggy mirrors.
Recipe For Disaster: Keifer Sutherland As Jack Bauer As Ben Carson + One Cheap CGI Beastie + American Horror Cries Again
Note To Aja: Please, for the love of Christ, stop remaking movies.
Stick to plagiarism, instead.
2 Spasms:
I'm a big fan of Amy Smart but it sounds like not even she could raise the bar on this junk? Time to drop this from the NFQ.
I had to write a paper on this movie for a horror writing class. Granted the movie was my choice and I had honestly never seen it before I didn't find it that bad. There were some terrible parts and the end scene between him and the devil was just funny, but looking at it from a psychoanalytic view I have seen worse. Try watching it again for something a little deeper. Helped me.
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