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Movie Overview
Cast
• Kiefer Sutherland
• Paula Patton
• Amy Smart
Director
• Alexandre Aja
MPAA Rating
R - for strong violence, disturbing images, language and brief nudity
Video/DVD Releases
Jan 13, 2009 (DVD)
Mirrors (2008)

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OFCS Rating: 6% Rotten
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"at some point Aja appears to have decided that he cannot be bothered with all this remake malarkey, and instead he just goes completely ape with his plotting...could well go on to become a cult classic."  Little White Lies  Anton Bitel

"It's too bad that other elements of 'Mirrors" lack the brilliance of its visual artistry."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Betty Jo Tucker

2.5/5
"Mirrors is a minor success, meaning it's a pretty big failure as well."  PopMatters  Bill Gibron

D-
"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."  BrianOrndorf.com  Brian Orndorf

C-
"It's so ridiculous that it even makes The Exorcist franchise films seem more sensible."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2/4
"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."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

C
"Really doesn't have much up its sleeve other than parlor tricks and gimmicks."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

D-
"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."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

1/4
"Alexandre Aja's inability to delineate credible or interesting characters results in 110 wasted minutes for anyone unfortunate to wander into an auditorium where this is playing."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

1/5
"ena remake poy oso pio polla soy leei, toso pio ilithio fainetai"  Movies for the Masses  Joseph Proimakis

1/4
"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."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

1/5
"While watching it won't necessarily lead to seven years of bad luck, it does make for a fairly aggravating 110 minutes."  eFilmCritic.com  Peter Sobczynski

3/5
"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."  FEARnet  Scott Weinberg

"Aja...apparently thinks that metaphysical speculation is for wimps; his audience wants red meat, and he's going to give it them, no matter how inappropriate it is."  ESplatter  Steve Biodrowski

2/10
"Ranking far below the adaptations of "The Ring" and "The Grudge," this Asian horror film re-make is simply ludicrous."  SSG Syndicate  Susan Granger

3/10
"I suppose Offscreen Spring-Loaded Cats is in active development even as I write."  Antagony & Ecstasy  Tim Brayton
OFCS Rating: 6% Rotten
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