Review: The Fog
Last night Jess and I went to see The Fog. It's apparently a re-make of an older film, but I've never heard of the original.
We weren't expecting much going in, but since we were both in the Halloween mood and both enjoy a good, scary flick now and then we decided to give it a shot.
I kind of wish we hadn't.
It was awful.
The premise is cool. The founders of an island community murder a group of lepers trying to purchase part of the island for their colony and steal their money. A hundred years or so later the lepers come back as ghosts in the midst of a thick fog and seek revenge on the descendants.
There was lots of picturesque scenery, the special effects were decent and the fog made everything seem kind of eerie. Up until the midpoint of the movie. Once the ghost-lepers start making their presence known the whole movie deteriorates into a group of characters alternately roaming about the island and running away from said ghost-lepers. This continues until the female lead in the story starts acting strange and running toward the monsters instead of away. Then, suddenly, she starts making out with the lead monster at which point we learn that she looks just like the lead monster's wife who was killed in the original betrayal by the island's founders.
Once the making-out is complete the female lead disappears with the monsters and the movie is over. No explanation for why this girl suddenly felt like making out with the lead monster. No explanation, really, for anything that happens in the end at all.
And the whole movie was like this. At one point all the windows in the male lead's pickup get broken out, only to inexplicably re-appear later in the movie.
This sort of thing happens in a lot of movies these days. A lot of effort is put into special effects to make everything look really spectacular and cool, but then almost no effort is put into making the story itself compelling. I wish the movie people would get their priorities straight. I can suspend my disbelief for less-than-realistic looking special effects if there's a good story going on, but if the story has gaps in the plot or just doesn't make any sense the best special effects in the world aren't going to make me like the film.
We weren't expecting much going in, but since we were both in the Halloween mood and both enjoy a good, scary flick now and then we decided to give it a shot.
I kind of wish we hadn't.
It was awful.
The premise is cool. The founders of an island community murder a group of lepers trying to purchase part of the island for their colony and steal their money. A hundred years or so later the lepers come back as ghosts in the midst of a thick fog and seek revenge on the descendants.
There was lots of picturesque scenery, the special effects were decent and the fog made everything seem kind of eerie. Up until the midpoint of the movie. Once the ghost-lepers start making their presence known the whole movie deteriorates into a group of characters alternately roaming about the island and running away from said ghost-lepers. This continues until the female lead in the story starts acting strange and running toward the monsters instead of away. Then, suddenly, she starts making out with the lead monster at which point we learn that she looks just like the lead monster's wife who was killed in the original betrayal by the island's founders.
Once the making-out is complete the female lead disappears with the monsters and the movie is over. No explanation for why this girl suddenly felt like making out with the lead monster. No explanation, really, for anything that happens in the end at all.
And the whole movie was like this. At one point all the windows in the male lead's pickup get broken out, only to inexplicably re-appear later in the movie.
This sort of thing happens in a lot of movies these days. A lot of effort is put into special effects to make everything look really spectacular and cool, but then almost no effort is put into making the story itself compelling. I wish the movie people would get their priorities straight. I can suspend my disbelief for less-than-realistic looking special effects if there's a good story going on, but if the story has gaps in the plot or just doesn't make any sense the best special effects in the world aren't going to make me like the film.
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