
In New York, the former NYPD detective Ben Carson is hired to work as night watch of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that was partially destroyed by fire many years ago. Ben became alcoholic and was retired from the police force after killing a man in a shooting. His marriage was also destroyed and now he is living in the apartment of his younger sister Angie. However he has not been drinking for three months and sees the employment as a chance to rebuild his li... (Full plot summary below)
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In New York, the former NYPD detective Ben Carson is hired to work as night watch of the remains of the Mayflower Department Store that was partially destroyed by fire many years ago. Ben became alcoholic and was retired from the police force after killing a man in a shooting. His marriage was also destroyed and now he is living in the apartment of his younger sister Angie. However he has not been drinking for three months and sees the employment as a chance to rebuild his life. When he goes to the rounds in his first night, he finds that the mirrors are impeccably clean and his colleague explains that the former night watch was obsessed with the mirrors. After a couple of nights, Ben sees weird images in the mirrors, but due to the lack of credibility of his past, his ex-wife Amy believes he has hallucinations as a side effect of his medication. When Angie is found brutally murdered in her bathtub, Ben discovers that there is an evil force in the mirror that is chasing him and jeopardizing his family.
Leave your thoughts about Mirrors.
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxActually a marked improvement over the plodding and confusing original. |
| Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallDirector Alexandre Aja (Haute Tension, The Hills Have Eyes) keeps the suspense tight for most of the movie, only to fritter it away in an overblown ending. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisA minor chiller and major downer from the talented Alexandre Aja. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jason AndersonAn occasionally inventive but ultimately plodding horror film. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThis remake of a South Korean movie ultimately provides fewer scares than the average aging baby boomer feels every time they look into a reflective surface. |
| Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenAn empty enterprise that provides a few moments of goofy fun, Mirrors reflects back nothing. |
| L.A. WeeklyJim RidleyIt's a mystery why Sutherland attached himself to this dour, muddled thriller. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe gore is so badly done that it's borderline comical and poor lighting passes for "atmosphere." |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrAt nearly two hours, Mirrors is overlong for a summer horror toss-off, and the movie's three or four false endings make it seem even more of a haul. |
| VarietyRob NelsonSoftcore horror at best, failed allegory at worst, Mirrors reflects little beyond Splat Pack auteur Alexandre Aja's desire to push his genre into less punishing and more profitable territory. |