It's too bad that other elements of 'Mirrors" lack the brilliance of its visual artistry.
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08/16/08
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.
Theatrical Release:Aug 15, 2008 Wide
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
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Reviews for Mirrors
Ranking far below the adaptations of "The Ring" and "The Grudge," this Asian horror film re-make is simply ludicrous.
08/16/08
It's so ridiculous that it even makes The Exorcist franchise films seem more sensible.
08/16/08
Mirrors reflects little beyond Splat Pack auteur Alexandre Aja's desire to push his genre into less punishing and more profitable territory.
08/16/08
Top CriticBy the time he pulls a gun on someone pivotal to the mystery, it's not that the movie is doing 24. It's just that the movie has no motivation for that character to be involved, so they force it, via his Jack Bauer moves.
08/16/08
Alexandre Aja proves once again that he is the best horror movie maker working today.
08/15/08
A slab of shoddy, hollow rubbish that can't be bothered to concoct imaginative frights or even tenuous bonds between its supernatural terror and its characters' human drama.
08/15/08
There's no denying it has its moments. There's also no denying it doesn't have enough of them.
08/15/08
The combination of Sutherland's beyond-the-call gravitas, director Alexandre (High Tension) Aja's demento visual sense, and a spookily lyrical ending earns it at least a short-term stay in the Halls of Yick.
08/15/08
Alex Aja has not only made the worst film of his career in Mirrors, he's made possibly the worst film of the year.
08/15/08
Kiefer Sutherland plays a variant of his Jack Bauer character--except that this time, it's the audience he tortures, and he fails to defuse the bomb--the movie, that is.
08/15/08
Mirrors have served as wonderful props and symbols in various genres, but in this poorly conceived and executed remake of the Asian horror flick, French helmer Aja doesn't fully exploit their potential for spooky effects.
08/15/08
At the goofiest point, a pane of glass actually bites Kiefer Sutherland. He yells at it, but the mirror doesn't listen.
08/15/08
If you're looking for another The Sixth Sense, The Devil's Backbone, or The Others, then Mirrors will definitely disappoint; however, if you just want to see some wild, wicked witchery and trippy trickery, you will get your money's worth.
08/15/08
It's not much of a compliment to call Mirrors "considerably better than Shutter, Pulse, or One Missed Call," but the flick is just good enough to make one wish it had shown up before those turkeys.
08/15/08
Mirrors isn't a total wash of a horror film, but it is not unreasonable to expect more from a filmmaker who has delivered stronger, more confident works in the past.
08/15/08
While watching it won't necessarily lead to seven years of bad luck, it does make for a fairly aggravating 110 minutes.
08/15/08
It skirts along the edge of greatness, but for every one thing it does right, it does another so inconceivably wrong.
08/15/08
With Aja slathering on the cheap boo scares, overseeing rancid performances, barely investing in his screenplay, and showing questionable gorehound taste in violent imagery, Mirrors eventually reflects absolute tedium.
08/15/08
Aja attempts to take a slow-burning ghost story and turn it into one of his over-the-top gorefests and loses the essence of the story in his endeavors... before wasting any money on this at theaters, you should probably reflect on it a bit...
08/14/08
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