22 out of 23 people found the following review helpful:

A poor movie, watch the original instead!

DJM666 from , 26th February, 2006

A poor movie on the whole, but not as terrible as many reviews have made it out to be. John Carpenter’s original wasn’t a classic itself, and left room for improvement (as well as an interesting story to work with), but this ultimately unnecessary remake does nothing to improve on or add to the original. If you have seen the original film, then there is no reason to watch this largely uninteresting and lifeless remake. There is very little tension, no scares, and no real horror (and any attempt at tension or scares can be easily telegraphed in advance). The special effects are somewhat better than the original, but that is to be expected given the bigger budget and new technology and techniques available. The characters are 1-dimentional, and are not developed enough for the viewer to care about any of them. You don’t feel the relationship between Tom Welling and Maggie Grace’s characters, or any real connection between any of the characters really. Tom Welling does what he can with what little he is given to work with., Maggie Grace and Selma Blair are just going through the motions for alot of the film, DeRay Davis is poor (and you soon begin to hope his character will die), and Tom Welling and Maggie Grace look lost at times and look like they wish that they were making another film! Tom Welling(Smallville), Maggie Grace(Lost & Oliver Beene), and Selma Blair(Hellboy) are all capable actors, but the Fog just doesn’t give them anything interesting to work with! The movie takes about an hour to get going and for something interesting to happen, but at that point it is too little too late really (as you have been bored senseless in the first hour)! The remake attempts to give more of an explanation of what is going on and more of a background story than the original did, and it has an interesting (if unexplained) ending, but in the end the movie is just so slow and uninteresting for the most part that it is really not worth watching – watch the original Fog movie instead.

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11 out of 11 people found the following review helpful:

Let s hope the FOG comes for whomever made this film. UTTER CARP

A Customer from drown_the_cast_and_infect_the_director, ocean, 10th July, 2006

Take one classic horror. Remove all believeable characters. Remove all memorable set pieces. Remove claustraphobic atmosphere. Remove spooky soundtrack. Hack bits of original story line. THEN Assume audience are all idiots Add American teens from poor TV series Add done_to_death modern horror cliches Sprinke some ropey CGI Half bake in a Hollywood cash_in oven RESULT An absolute pile of p o o. Really folks, dont waste your time putting this on your list. Its a bitter disapointment for anyone, whether you've seen the original or not. Rent the original instead, because it leaves this one dead in the water. (Geddit?)

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11 out of 13 people found the following review helpful:

I haven't the foggiest idea why I just watched this film

A Customer from England, 26th February, 2006

Why, oh why, would anybody want to watch this film? It is absolutely terrible. It isn't even scary, and just bores you throughout. Don't even think about watching it - even if you have two hours to burn. A definite no-no.

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13 out of 22 people found the following review helpful:

*** May contain spoilers ***

Not bad, enjoyable

ROS BURRAGE from Stockton, Norfolk, 11th January, 2007

this was pretty good, better than i expected. the end puzzled me though. how does kissing a ghost turn you into one??? my fave bit was how the vicar was killed, it was very imaginative. ive never seen the original, i didnt realise there was one! but i did like this film.

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Must See

A Customer from london, 16th March, 2010

This movie was so good! The story line was excellent and with a unpredictable ending. I watched it six times :-)

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fog

templar from from acton, 6th February, 2010

great film but not as good as the original

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De Ja Vu of sorts

Nooky from from Kendal, 27th January, 2010

I rememered watching this film some time ago and decided to revisit it. It was then I realised the film had been remade in 2005. I had watched the 1979 version with although did not contain all the umph of the new one. I prefered it to this one. I suppose I was waiting for scenes and happennings from the original (which I thot I had rented) So maybe this gave me a weird feeliing about the film. But not bad, IF I were to rent again, it would be the original version !!!

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Ok!

gianino from , 3rd January, 2010

Not a masterpiece of course but good entretainment! It's one of those movies that you know they are nothing special but you know you enjoy watching them in the end perhaps even more than one time.

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