Mirrors (2008)
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Reviews Counted:80
Fresh:12
Rotten:68
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: Inconsistency and listless plot make this K-horror remake a less-than-frightening time at the movies.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Nov 6, 2008 Wide
US Box Office: $30,575,158
Synopsis: French director Alexandre Aja adds to his growing canon of horror features with this remake of the Korean feature GEOUL SOKEURO (2003). Kiefer Sutherland stars as Ben Carson, a disgraced former New... [More]
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Jason Flemyng
Director: Alexandre Aja
Reviews for Mirrors
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In the end, the story fizzles out, with the second stanza bordering on the downright farcical. Full Review |
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2/5 |
The unfeasibly large number of scenes where Sutherland must swap lines with the title characters makes the wait to get to the good stuff feel like an eternity. Full Review |
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An unexpected twist elevates this well constructed supernatural thriller whose chilling concepts and vivid imagery make it a scary experience. Full Review |
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An ultimately uninteresting work that serves as a potential low point for one of the more promising genre filmmakers in recent times Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
Sutherland's natural stoicism does make the more risible developments and dialogue a bit easier to stomach (a moment when he goes all Jack Bauer on a nun comes to mind). Full Review |
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2/5 |
Clunky dialogue sets up the film, unlikely backstory drives it along, and it all concludes in a ludicrous cataclysm of cinematic hyperbole. Full Review |
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As Joe Bob Briggs used to say: "too much plot gets in the way of the story." Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
...often far more entertaining than it has any right to be. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
I love a good horror movie, and this offered something different from slasher remakes and zombie flicks. Full Review |
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In SUSPIRIA, Udo Kier says that "Bad luck isn't caused by broken mirrors, but by broken minds"-Well after making this silly movie, director Alexandre Aja might think otherwise Full Review |
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65/100 |
When we should be feeling fascinated by the unfolding mystery and creeped out by things acting up nastily, we instead find ourselves thinking too much and asking questions. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Jack Bauer can disarm nuclear weapons without breaking a sweat, but he apparently can't locate a script worthy of his real-life alter ego. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Faint praise alert! Mirrors is nowhere near as bad as the initial reviews - and poor box office - portend. Full Review |
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1/5 |
ena remake poy oso pio polla soy leei, toso pio ilithio fainetai Full Review |
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2/5 |
Despite some creepy scenes and superb special effects, Mirrors is let down by a ludicrous script and some dodgy acting, though it remains watchable on a so-bad-it's-good level. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Te story is efficient but strangely uninvolving and not nearly as scary as the Korean version. Full Review |
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Some credit for this stylish screamer goes to Sutherland, forming his doughy-handsome features into an emotional punchbag. More credit goes to Nemec, sowing a harvest of dark invention in the vast spaces. Full Review |
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1/5 |
On reflection, Mirrors may have been better going straight to the DVD shelf. Full Review |
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2/5 |
This lame supernatural horror screams straight-to-DVD, with little in the way of scares, but yawns aplenty. Full Review |
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2/5 |
The script fails to come up with a convincing reason for the mirrors behaving as nastily as they do, and the final twist is effective only if you don't, as it were, reflect upon it. Full Review |
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