Synopsis
There is evil...On the other side.
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
2008 Directed by Alexandre Aja
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
Kiefer Sutherland Paula Patton Amy Smart Jason Flemyng Cameron Boyce Erica Gluck Ioana Abur Mary Beth Peil John Shrapnel Tim Ahern Julian Glover Josh Cole Ezra Buzzington Aida Doina Darren Kent Roz McCutcheon Adina Rapiteanu William Meredith Bart Sidles Cai Man Jingdong Qin Anca Damacus Tudor Stroescu Liliana Donici Aurelia Radulescu George Dumitrescu Irina Săulescu Valeriu Pavel Greg Nicotero Show All…
Lucian Iordache Mark Vanstone Dirk Rogers Alistair Bell Edi Balan Tom Bryan Mircea Frenkel Christopher Hayes Noah Meddings Russell Pritchett Simon Quinn Ovidiu Ursaru
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This felt ripe for a revisit because I'm an optimist and I like Aja’s work but this is a prime example of squandered potential… a director on the rise coming off arguably his best film, an eerie atmospheric setting (burnt down abandoned department store), and an interesting premise involving something so simple yet effective... Mirrors.
Starts out strong (despite the stock 'down and out ex cop' trope) with few nicely executed scenes/jump scares in the abandoned store, but as more time passes this thing just starts to flounder. We get a few pulse raising moments halfway through (that bathtub death is fantastic) and some cool spooky mirror shit but in the long run I couldn't help but feel like this…
It's alright I guess. Besides a couple of memorable scenes, and believe me they are super memorable, this is a pretty forgettable affair. Just a giant meh that I won't return to you know. It feels like a concept that could be done so much better.
Whatever.
This is bad but I love that Kiefer Sutherland spends the entire movie FURIOUS. He’s not scared, he’s ANNOYED by these fucking mirrors.
1. The main characters name is Ben Carson
2. I don't think this movie had a middle section because if it did I don't remember it and I literally just finished it
3. There's a really fucking cool kill scene in a bathtub that brought me back to The Golden Days Of J Horror and I almost started crying
4. I want to call Alexandre Aja my favorite director even though he kinda sucks
So this movie is so completely stupid that it circles back around to being kinda great! Like not so great that I’m willing to shower it with 4 or 5 stars, but just a really ridiculous and lovable hot mess.
The whole concept with mirrors is a good one, but overall I preferred it in Poltergeist III when it wasn’t accompanied by a bunch of cgi effects. Actually, the best part of the movie is the stretch that takes place in Keifer and Paula’s house with the water running everywhere because it goes full tilt Poltergeist III even though it feels like an entirely different movie from the rest of Mirrors. They should have taken that part out and filmed a whole new movie…
Mirrors is a supernatural horror about an entity who haunts thru mirrors. This Alexandre Aja film is best remembered for that INSANE bathtub scene where a girl ripped her jaw open. The plot is fresh, and there're actually good, effective build-ups as the storytelling delivered original scare tactics, never before seen jump-scares, and a nice final twist.
But Mirrors got less and less sensible (with some minor plot-holes too) and the cast's acting strengths - including Kiefer Sutherland on the lead role - comes and goes. Overall an average movie but at some point, you'd wish the evil entity to just jam a pointed shard on Sutherland's skull and end it all.
Clearly the problem here is the inability of these people to pronounce the word mirror properly. No it’s not a ‘meerrrr’, and that perhaps is where it all started. All the vowels got together in a secret meeting at the monastery and thought ‘OK, that's enough… it’s time to hit back’.
I haven’t had much sleep. Can you tell?
Ok, so I’ll just put it out there that this is an absolute banger. Mirrors is a film that starts strong and retains a sense of danger throughout, and then, boom! That one scene, with the girl in the bath… wowsers, that shit was gnarly.
"What a pain in the glass."
#notarealquote
Kiefer Sutherland is seeing things from behind the mirrors,…
Well that's me done looking at mirrors.
This movie can be scary and gross with the blood and gore, but it dose have it's dull and flat moments that sometimes made it hard to watch at times.