Mirrors 2 (2010)

Very Cool!!!

Fresh and Exciting

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Max Matheson (Nick Stahl) is being treated psychologically by Dr. Beaumont for causing his fiancée Kayla's death. His father Jack Matheson (William Katt) reopens the Mayflower Department Store in New Orleans which has the cursed mirror haunting the night security guard. Max is hired as replacement and he starts seeing things. Elizabeth (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is searching for her missing sister.The original is an adaptation of a Korean horror. It was mostly bland and barely passable. This sequel is a lifeless reflection of even that. None of the visuals are particularly compelling or that scary. There is poor CGI work. All the characters are lackluster. It's also not taking many chances which leaves this a straight forward fail.

After watching the first feature of this rare mainstream Horror duology, I've had very little expectations. If there's one thing I believe all of us Horror fans learnt from The Ring, is that high expectations for a sequel are doomed to come crashing down. Then again, lowered expectation leave room for some nice surprises and a better viewing experience.Knowing that, I sat down to watch Mirrors 2. The first thing I was glad about was seeing the incredible Nick Stahl, one of the most outrageously underrated actors in Hollywood, staring in his own Horror film, and one that is pretty high budget and mainstream (this is not to sat that mainstream is always good, only that it's nice that when Horror finally gets another mainstream feature, it's Nick Stahl who stars in it). Absolutely magnificent in Terminator 3, Sin City and On the Inside (you probably haven't seen it, I recommend you do), Stahl brought his absolute A game to work. Again. The slightly awkward ever struggling facial expressions, the friendly relatable body language, all the fine acting that make Stahl the perfect tragic hero and everyone's best friend is all here. Simply a pleasure! Having said that, I must say the rest of the cast (Emmanuelle Vaugier and Larence Turner in particular) did a fine job as well, and it's difficult to get recognized for good acting when you're hopelessly overshadowed by an actor of Stahl's proportions.The story is not half bad, yet not that impressive. Pretty much the same as in the first film. On one hand it means that there's nothing breathtaking, special or unusually good about it, on the other hand, it's not a complete fall compared to the first. Always nice to see the rules of Horror sequels broken. As in Mirrors, Mirrors 2's story lacked any substantial plot twists, and the direction it took towards the ending felt very out of place to me. Not to give any spoilers, but when it comes to ghosts haunting mirrors - attempting to reinvent the wheel in regards to their motivations is slightly off putting.Effects are of course Hollywood-level impressive, which means all the blood and gore you fans of all things revolting and nauseating could want. I, personally, am not a fan of these, and so I find these affects to be redundant to the point of being a nuisance. Unnecessary. You hear me, Hollywood? Unnecessary. It's high time we separated Horror from Gore, they are two completely different genres, and making an audience sick to their stomach is a million miles away from making them terrified.All in all, Mirrors 2 is nothing special, nor does it need to be. Mirrors 1 was nothing special, and only specific points of the story and Kiefer Sutherland's acting made it above average. Mirrors 2 is about the same, with Stahl having no problems in filling Sutherland's shoes. A good sequel, fun to watch, scary at times, definitely worthy of your time.

*Contains Spoilers*I won't touch on Mirrors too much other than to say I thought it was one of best horror films I've seen in a long time. It was brilliant. It was simple, it was mysterious, and it didn't try and explain itself any more than it needs to.Onto Mirrors 2. Nick Stahl didn't shine. I can't remember the last time I saw such a wooden and half hearted performance, at times it was almost as if he didn't really want to be there. It really was that bad. Emmanuelle Vaugier was the only other person with anything slightly more than a bit part, and even that wasn't too much more. It's unfair to single out Nick Stahl as nobody put in a performance that I would consider to be anything close to good. They didn't have a great deal to work with or become attached to but it felt as if it was just another pay cheque to all of them.Poor performances aside the plot is where Mirrors 2 really falls apart. The hat is out of the bag from Mirrors, we know there are spirits behind the mirrors so to be fair to Mirrors 2, it was always going to have a hard time; this however is no excuse that Mirrors 2 can use for all it's failings. It's the pretty standard concept of the spirit of a murdered victim seeking revenge on her killers, this time from within the mirrors. It is totally void of any suspense what so ever and if I'm going to be polite, it was boring. Although there was a plot it really felt throughout the film that nothing much was happening.All in all Mirrors 2 was a disappointment, I wasn't expecting a film as good as Mirrors but it could and should have been a good film in it's own right.

Anybody who thought this movie was close to average, must have bin on drugs when the watched it.The problem with this movie is that it sux. The problem with the film industry today, is movies like this. Has the industry lost its originality?The First movie had some good ideas, and good moments, it built up the story to a good ending. this film is just another slasher, it has no depth or thought, its like the writer just pulled a bunch of used ideas out of a barrel and strung them together.And people are still gonna rent it, and they will make more just like it =(