Please note this is a complete SPOILER and I am basically relaying how insanely stupid this movie was for your enjoyment. I suggest seeing the movie before reading this if you have any interest in it being surprise. 2008 Release
Directed by: Alexandre Aja
Written by: Alexandre Aja, Gregory Levasseur
Starring: Keifer Sutherland, Paula Patton & Amy Smart
Goodie goodie goodie! I am SUPER excited to finally review this movie because I am pretty sure I could recite every line of dialogue. I have watched this movie at least 20 times. Why? Let me explain....I am a Keifer Sutherland fan and appreciate his ability to be insanely intense about nothing and I love the way this movie uses that. It also tries WAY too hard to be a good movie and I love the fact that Christian was really angry after watching it and wanted his 2 hours back.
Anyway, Sutherland plays Ben Carson, an alcoholic cop suspended from the force for unnecessarily shooting a man to death while on the job. He is estranged from his wife, Amy (Patton), a forensic pathologist and mother of their 2 children, and is desperately trying to win her trust & confidence back. He takes a night shift security guard job at the old Mayflower Department Store which was abandoned after a destructive fire years prior. Almost immediately strange things start happening while Ben patrols the building - What's could it be? I can't wait to find out! He hears a woman screaming and tries to find her (yes he is screaming), when he can't locate her he looks in the mirrors and is then able to see a charred up woman on the floor screaming. Of course her breasts exposed. Who doesn't love a pair of burnt up charred titties? Later he peers into a mirror and his reflection is set on fire and he starts screaming and writhing on the floor and it's really hilarious. He becomes obsessed with figuring out what's behind the strange events at the Mayflower. Doesn't sound like a bad plot so far, right? Well, I love it because the way its played out is so stupid. In literally every scene Ben is boiling over with intensity and screaming about something, it's unnecessary and hysterical.
Eventually the evil in the mirrors of the Mayflower starts to appear in his home and his younger sister is murdered by her mirror double mirror image in a pretty stupid way. I guess you could die from having your jaw ripped off ? It looked goofy.
Using his police background, he pieces together the random clues and finds out that the Mayflower used to be a hospital. The mystery name "ESSEKER" keeps appearing to him and he's able to dig up records revealing a young schizophrenic girl by the name of Esseker was admitted to the hospital and was falsely reported - BUT WHY? She received a form of treatment whereby she was forced to sit in a room of mirrors to face her inner demons and it works - that's good right? The meanies in her head were forced out of her mind and into the mirrors of the building. Even after the building is remodeled the demons still inhabit the mirrors and have been searching for Esseker ever since. So that's what all the hub bub was about?!
All this random stuff happens; one of the kids disappears into the floor, Amy's mirror image tries to kill the daughter with scissors, and Ben kidnaps Esseker so she can face her demons in the mirrors again to save his family. I should proabably provide more details but all you need to know is the Sutherland is angry alot, veins in his head are popping out everywhere and he does alot screaming. He is able to save his family but.....there is a price. He must live eternity in the reflection of his life, never able to return to the his family...instead he watches from the inside. THAT IS SOME PRETTY HEAVY SHIT PEOPLE! It's a master piece....
SO having said all that, I give this movie:
It's a gem, gotta give it a 5! There is absolutely nothing about this movie I would change. There is plenty of crazy screaming, just enough gore, stupid dialogue and a nun running around on the ceiling. See it, be it, love it.
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