Live Life Team
I will admit, I’m very easy to scare. Pack in a few loud noises with some scary characters and you’ve got me. I won’t be sleeping for the next couple of days. But ‘Mirrors’, well, let’s just say I slept very peacefully that night.
Alexandre Aja, the French director who made ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ and the French ‘Haute Tension’ obviously has a fascination with horror, gore, and violence but somehow he missed the mark this time. It huffs and it puffs but it loses its energy to blow the house down well ahead of the end credits.
Ben Carson (played by Kiefer Sutherland) is a suspended cop who accidentally shot an undercover policeman. He’s also terrible at anger management and is having trouble with his marriage. So to get his life back on track, Carson gets a job as a security officer, working night shifts guarding an old department store that was gutted in a fire. On his nightly rounds, Carson begins to see strange and eerie things in the mirrors, which he tries to discard as hallucinations but they soon become too real to ignore.
Okay, so that’s scary but then nothing really happens. It just stays eerie for a bit, you expect some amazing explanation to the whole phenomenon of the evil mirrors. But all you get is the tried, tested and completely overused exorcist-like story. A little girl, apparently schizophrenic but actually possessed, releases her spirits into the mirrors and now they’re trapped there.
It starts out well, but it just fizzles out and it isn’t even remotely scary. Not even to me!
