This film made me love Thomas Jane. Many familiar faces appear, including Mystic River's Marcia Gay Harding, W.'s Toby Jones, and Andre Braugher. The cast is filled with prominent actors playing minor roles, which really rounds the quality of acting out to a solid level of decency. Even American Pie's Sherminator is in this. (His name is Chris Owen).
The plot: A mysterious mist covers a small town, and citizens are trapped in a supermarket. Mysterious monsters appear. We are told the military has been experimenting with unknown motives in the local mountains. We are reminded that the fog that preceded the storm was unexpected and strange. Furthermore, we are constantly involved with the characters in this supermarket, and therefore really begin to care about Thomas Jane's character, and his son - even more so once we are presented with the deep psychotic nature of many of the other characters - and how influential they become. Basically, it's just a really effective movie, tense and entertaining. It feels like a good old basic Sci-Fi story, but much more humanized than I'd expected.
If you like thrillers, horror films, Thomas Jane, or Half-Life (the story is basically the same, the POV being the only difference) - then watch this film. The ending is very interesting.
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