Mirrors (R-2008)

Kiefer Sutherland used his time off from "24" to make a good old-fashioned ghost tale. In "Mirrors", he plays Ben Carson, an ex-cop who has taken a security guard position at a burned-out historic department store to try to make ends meet. He is separated from his family and trying to put his life back together. While patrolling the department store, he sees odd things happening in the mirrors, which are surprisingly clean. This, of course, intrigues him but becomes a problem when the mirrors in his own home start behaving oddly themselves. There is a mystery in these mirrors and Carson becomes convinced that he must solve the mystery to save his family. This is a pretty good performance by Sutherland, who plays a very different character from Jack Bauer. There was, however, one scene where he first notices his home mirror reflection does not do what he does. He falls down and his sister runs in, he screams: "Get out of the bathroom, NOW!". That was very "Jack Bauer-like", which made me chuckle during an intense moment. Overall, it is a pretty good ghost story with just enough gore (the "bathtub scene" is disturbing, let's leave it at that). Sutherland does a nice job carrying the film as he is in almost every scene. This is a horror story that is not too scary, not too gory, but definitely entertaining.

Grade: C+

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