AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

heath-jeffrey A rather unique story with a couple of plot twists, centred around an ex-cop starting a new job as night security at an empty half-burned mall. The mall is filled with strange mirrors, that he soon discovers seem to be haunted (the viewer knows before he does due to an intro scene).Between the ex-cop's investigations into the history of the mall and the mirrors, the way the apparent hauntings play out, and a special effects emphasis on fog and mist, corner of the eye movements, and glass that breaks or repairs itself, the mood is creepy and mysterious throughout.The acting is generally solid, sometimes even powerful. The music and sound effects play into the spookiness well. And overall, it would be a really top of the line movie......except for two isolated scenes of concentrated, disgusting, gore. Just two. One right at the beginning, and another about a third of the way in. Nothing like it in the rest of the movie, and it's really not at all what the movie is about. But it really is the sickening 'what kind of people come up with this stuff' kind of gore that belongs in an over the top psycho thriller or pure gore-fest horror, not in a subtle, mysterious, spine tingling horror like this one.Aside from the gore, there are only minor flaws with a couple of contradictions in the actions of some secondary characters. Well worth watching if you're into Mortal Kombat fatalities, movies like Saw, or you think the scenes in Bones where they find the bodies aren't bloody enough. Otherwise, only watch it if you've got someone else willing to watch as they fast-forward through those 2 scenes for you.

Spikeopath Mirrors is the American remake of a little known Korean film called Into the Mirror. The plot has Kiefer Sutherland as a recovering alcoholic cop, who whilst on suspension is taken to working as a security guard at a large burnt out department store and starts to see terrifying images in the many mirrors about the place... You would think that Mirrors was a flop. The critics hated it and the horror hordes were very much divided on it, the latter of which is to be fair the norm for any big horror movie release. Yet it didn't flop, it did very well at the box offices of the world and has a decent 6.2 average on IMDb, which for a divisive horror film is well above average.Mirrors overstays its welcome, there really was no need for it to run to just under two hours in length. While elsewhere there's some pretty poor dialogue, parts of the screenplay are pointlessly soap opera in nature, while some thinking will make you scratch your head in bewilderment at events outside of the brilliantly monolithic department store.However, does Mirrors create a genuinely spooky atmosphere (the interiors of the store are creep fest nirvana), insert some shock moments to jolt you out your seat? Is it visually stylish, with sound work to match? And does Sutherland (and to a degree Paula Patton as his wife) overcome the trite parts of the script and give effective and committed performances? The answer to those questions is yes.Does the ending cop out in any way? Insult the audience? No! It doesn't do that either.It has flaws, but they are not insurmountable for the horror fan who's just looking for some good scares, atmospheric dread and some stylish touches from the director (Alexandre Aja). If you haven't seen it then give it a try, judge for yourself, you might be pleasantly surprised at what you find. 7.5/10

Python Hyena Mirrors (2008): Dir: Alexandre Aja / Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Mary Beth Peil, Cameron Boyce: Stupid morbid horror film about image and illusion. This film has a self praised illusion while its image is pure sh*t. Kiefer Sutherland plays an ex investigator who accepts a job at an abandon mall that has burned. Soon he begins to see images of burn victims including his own reflection. Director Alexandre Aja can set up scare sequences but the graphic violence should be toned down in favour of suspense. Sutherland pulls through as he struggles to deal with reality and the unknown and coming off crazy. Supporting roles aren't quite as broad. Paula Patton is featured as his wife in a role that is strictly standard and predictable. Amy Smart is wasted as his sister whose mirror image tears her jaw apart thus killing herself. All she needed was a trip to the dentist for that kind of action and she can make return trips. Mary Beth Peil appears as an aged institutionalized woman. After being part of this film she may need to go back. Cameron Boyce plays their son, and having a kid to mind screw is typical with these films. Horror films in the past ten years seem to be all about gore and guts and it is beginning to take the place of true suspense. Grossing viewers out isn't suspense, it's just disgusting. Well made visually with a screenplay that shatters before the second act. Score: 4 ½ / 10

BA_Harrison Director Alexandre Aja's Mirrors boasts a decent cast and stunning gore courtesy of FX experts Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero, but misses being a completely satisfying horror experience by failing to adhere to a convincing or consistent internal logic.At first, the mirrors are the gateway by which the evil force finds its way into our world; later, it can use any reflective surface—which is just as dumb as it sounds (almost any smooth surface has a reflection; it would be impossible to avoid them all!). The evil attacks the night-watchmen working at the department store, but doesn't bother with the old guard who patrols the building during the day. Most ridiculous is Ben Carson's continuing to work at the store, even after experiencing several supernatural incidents that would send most people screaming, never to return. These kind of problems plague the film to the end, seriously undermining its effectiveness.Still, at least the film doesn't wimp out on the gore, opening with a splattery throat slashing, giving us a yucky autopsy scene, and delivering a thoroughly shocking sequence in which Amy Smart suffers a grisly bathtub demise, her jaw ripped clean off her face (the same scene also provides the obligatory female nudity, Smart kindly baring boobs and butt before getting in the bath). Aja also sees fit to include that other popular mainstay of the genre: a fit bird in a tight white vest, Paula Patton as Carson's wife doing the honours, even going so far as to get all wet for the film's finale.5.5 out of 10, but I refuse to round it up to a 6 on account of that awful special effects scene in which Sutherland writhes unconvincingly in pain on the floor as he is burned by truly terrible CGI fire.