5/5 cruel and agonizing
  by Eliane T. Goncalves (sao paulo, brazil)
this film is perfect even if some people did not like the final moments. Maybe not an exactly scary movie but an agonizing one. You follow the despair of people who dont know exactly what is going on when a strange, supernatural mist literally invades a small town and envelopes everything on a horrifying and almost living shroud. A group trapped in a supermarket by the mist suddenly begins to be attacked by incredible monsters (in spectacular effects)apparently coming from some unknown zone inside the mist. Fastly the group splits in two factions, those who are afraid and do nothing and those who are afraid and intend to take some action to scape from this twilight zone-situation, facing the unknown (oh, there is an explanation, the old cliche, an obscure military experience...). Usually the good guys win and have a happy end but here cruelly the good guys loose, taking the wrong decisions... really one of the best horror movies of this century.

5/5 A movie can't be different now days.
  by Laron S. Lee (Baltimore MD.)
I loved this movie and i can't see why most people don't like it,it wasn't no Dark Knight,but it had its own style,Yes the acting could be better but who cares,all i want is a good story and that's what we got.I know alot of the folks on here may have left the same reviews on Youtube, but you will still get the latter like me who loved this movie for being its own.The ending left me shocked and had me thinking like damn atleast you knew the military was kicking ass because hey it was their screw-up and they had to fix it.Wish he would had waited a few before he killed everyone tho.That's what happens when you believe its the end of the world and you wouldn't the one you care about to be food for those creatures.Realistic ending indeed i would surely had done the same.But why didn't he just jump in front of one of the tanks when he knew he screwed up big time huh lol.So to all the haters out there who wants a movie to be epic like DarkKnight was this wasnt that type of movie just watch the movie for what it was,a Horror Picture.

1/5 Worst Ending I've Ever Seen
  by Fred Rayworth (Las Vegas, NV United States)
This movie was a five-star icky bug right until that disgusting bummer ending. I've never been more mad at a movie in my life.

When it comes to bummer endings, I thought The Ruins had it in the bag. However, after seeing this piece of trash, I can see why Mr. King gave a big fat blurb for the book version of The Ruins.

The whole movie, right until the end was great. Lots of mystery, plenty of icky bugs, and a sort-of explanation of why it might be happening. Then there are the actions of the people trapped in the store. The religious fanatic who whips everyone into a religious frenzy was a big nod to Lord Of The Flies and how it is handled by the heroes is one of the best scenes in the movie.

However, it all boils down to the payoff, the ending. This is where the movie gets 90% of its rating. As I said at the beginning, it was five stars up until that scene in the SUV as they are sitting out of gas. Maybe there were alternative endings and I happened to get the bad one. Or, maybe it was always intended to be this way. I don't even know if the original short story ended that way as I'm not a big fan of Mr. King's books. All I can say is that the less than five minute ending scene ruined what was a top-notch icky bug.

Some people like bummer endings. More power to them. As far as I'm concerned, I got ripped off. Not recommended at all.


2/5 Another Beer Would Have Been Better
  by Quick Fill
The Mist is another example of extraordinary special effects talent mismatched with horrid direction and writing. Were it not for special effects one would think one was having an out-of-joint conversation with a schizophrenic. The truly ponderable thing about this movie is how a ninth-grade film class, apparently, came by the big money to produce it.

4/5 Improvement over DVD, but not perfect
  by JVAN (Ohio)
I won't review the movie; if you want a review, go to imdb. That being said, I saw this in theaters, purchased the 2-disc collectors DVD when it was released, and now that I've gone Blu-ray, am replacing that DVD. So I guess I like this movie.

In upconversion, the DVD suffered from haloing; where bright whites tended to unnaturally bleed into adjacent colors. Like when a person is backlit with a bright light, but is not dark from the front, the edges of that person would glow. I found this extremely distracting. The Blu-ray solves this problem, but the graininess in darker scenes is about the same. Scenes are sharper, but when they're in the back of the store, for example, the shadows are still full of grain.

I'm glad I replaced the DVD, but am a little disappointed in the grainy artifacts that still exist in the transfer.