Sadly Over-hyped

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Let's be realistic.

Lack of good storyline.

The movie is pretty predictable and follows many well established horror tropes (bad communication between the people and unrealistic overall behaviour) The storyline feels forced, the characters one dimensional and even the "bad" guys lack any reasonable motivation.There is not much to say - the film is the bare standard. The acting is average, the scare factor ... well, there is none.My advice: stay away from it (i have not seen the original one - so i cannot recommend it - but i heard that it is much better than the remake)

Let's not sugarcoat this at all… The remake of The Fog by Rupert Wainwright doesn't hold a candle at all to John Carpenter's original. An extended storyline in this film was based off the original revenge plot but it only muddied the waters and made the movie more complicated. Another thing about the remake, where are the townspeople and supporting roles, is there anybody that lives on this island besides the few casted actors and actresses? This leads to the atrocious acting or just completely forgettable roles by the cast, people were solely by their looks instead of talent. As a viewer it's understandable, glamorous, gorgeous actors/actresses might attract people to the theaters but it's no way going to be an impressionable movie in later years.The next thing that is about to be trashed is the special effects of the ghosts that were all extremely phony looking because of poor computer generated imagery. The Fog itself didn't look at all as menacing and the setting and cinematography of the area wasn't portrayed nearly as much as it should have been. The filming location was beautiful and it was a waste not to take advantage of the area more than they could have. The final aspect of the movie that is hateable about the film is the head-scratching ending, like what was the rational and point of this twist other than to make people mad. The bogus story, terrible acting, and lack of scary substance makes The Fog (2005) worthy enough to it's appearances in "worst of lists" as far as remakes go.

OK, I don't usually write bad reviews but this movie is dreadful. The casting was awful, most of the acting was horrible and the story was filled with so many holes it is unbelievable that it made it to the theaters.They cast a comedian who can't act serious as the sidekick in a horror movie? There are shots of the girls who have their shirts pulled up on one side while doing the dishes just to show their underwear? The 2 main stars find 3 dead bodies on the boat so they split up and the girl hears a clank downstairs so she goes down there by herself right after finding 3 MURDERED bodies! The cop asks the mayor if he should arrest a murder suspect!!?? For some reason the 3 murders were filled on a personal camera on the boat but the cops don't take it into evidence, they just leave it on the boat...they don't even look at it!!I could go on and on. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME. PLEASE.

After a series of strange encounters, a small sea-town comes to believe the fulfillment of a deadly curse is being brought upon by a series of malicious ghosts and try to stop it before it's too late.Quite frankly, this is a highly underrated effort that's one of the more enjoyable remakes among this current crop. One of the only true flaws to this is the lower rating which does harm this one. The kills here really lack any sort of impact or brutality with the lack of blood throughout here, and the other attacks have a slightly less intense bite to them than they otherwise would with a darker tone to this. There's also the act that this one tends to overplay its scenes far longer than they're worth, which is slightly odd in that it makes for overlong and overly dramatic scare scenes that overstay their welcome at times and instead drains some of their impact. Still, there's a lot to like here in the fact that the build-up in here is incredibly well-done with this one featuring the early visions of the ships' fate along with the items washed ashore both creating a rather fine and exciting set-up as well as the burgeoning mystery they lead to surrounding the sudden appearance of the journal explaining everything that finally puts everything together. That helps makes scenes like the ambush or sea or the supernatural activities in the radio station to seem all the more enjoyable as well as being highly suspenseful by milking the idea of the fog being a malevolent entity in this one. The scenes of it moving through town, surrounding buildings and weaving along the hallways makes for a thoroughly chilling scenario about what's trapped in the fog. When it finally pays that off in the final half causes this to be all the more enjoyable and entertaining by making for a rather chilling connection with the back-story given already in here which is where this one gets the most out of its storyline. That also helps to make for a really fine finale by really getting the good attacks and really creepy scenarios in here that really make for a high-note ending here which really sells this one. The last part to like here is the rather inspired amount of suspense in here, from the attack on the lighthouse worker and the fog chasing the family through the house to even shorter scenes with the trapped car underwater, the fake-drowning in the outhouse or the final assault in the library which makes for some really good times in here. While they may seem a little like a cop-out, these make it enjoyable enough.Rated PG-13: Violence, some Language and shadowy Nudity.