We watched another “horror” movie last night, as we are trying to get in the Christmas spirit.
Mirrors, directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Amy Smart and Paula Patton, is the story of “an ex-cop and his family become the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.” (According to IMDB anyway)
But it is really 24 with a slightly scary theme, Kiefer Sutherland plays Jack Bauer, no sorry he plays Ben Carson, an troubled ex cop, struggling with his alcoholism.
Within the first 7 minutes we see that Ben did something bad.
And he is taking medication.
Next, we find out that Ben’s new job, as a security guard is in an old derelict shopping center that is built on what used to be a “creepy” location. Oh, now we are wondering what is going to happen?
We are then treated to the knowledge that Ben is either divorced or separated from his wife (Paula Patton), and his kids.
Oh, and Ben lives with his sister (Amy Smart), and we did notice that Ben just walks into his sisters bedroom, without knocking or calling her name out, he just walks in while she is in bed, naked, well no she is wearing clothes, but it would have made the movie 68 times better.
Well, Jack Ben goes to work in the creepy shopping center, at night. Strange thing happen and Ben can see bad thing reflected in the mirrors that don’t seem to be there in the real world.
Lots of 24 like action, acting and gun shooting later, Ben and his family are threatened by the Mirrors, surprise, surprise. Now we don’t want to give too much of the plot away, because there isn’t really much of a plot.

Ben does some 24 style investigation, and fixes everything.
The movie ends with a huh, we thought we were watching 24, where were the terrorists, the bad guy and what’s with the mirrors.
Now this is another American remake of an Asian movie. We have not seen the original, Korean movie Into The Mirror, but we are guessing that Jack Bauer is not in it and it is probably a lot better that Mirrors/24.













