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Mirrors
21 Nov 2008, 2059 hrs IST,
Nikhat Kazmi, TNN
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Mirrors
(horror)
Cast:
Kiefer Sutherland, Paula
Patton
Direction:
Alexandra
Aja
Critic ratings:
THE horror factory in Hollywood
relentlessly keeps churning out Asian remakes, after the success of The Ring
series.
This time, the devil
manifests itself through malevolent mirrors, which suddenly turn murderous.
Ordinary people begin to die when their reflection turns assassin and pulls
jaws, cuts veins, slashes necks, or what you
will.
Enter Kiefer Sutherland,
a dysfunctional cop whose punishment posting now entails guarding a burnt-out
building. Nothing wrong with that, except that the spooky house has a
larger-than-life mirror that begins to show him strange things.
His wife dismisses it as
musings of a stressed mind, but goes on high alert, when her six-year-old son
too starts staring into mirrors and conversing with them. Time to go back in
history and find the cause behind the mysterious
apparitions.
But that doesn't
matter really. What matters is the spook quotient of the film. How many times do
you jump out of your seats or cover your eyes with fear?
Just two or three times, to be
precise, when a reflection stares at you long after the person has moved or
maybe, when it tears it's face apart with its bare hands. The rest is mostly a
hunt for the missing link between illusion and reality, with lots of half-lit
sequences of bloody body parts and gutturals
moans.
Strictly for diehard
horror buffs,
Mirrors
doesn't really have anything new to offer.
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