Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

loueysmith If you like suspense movies and decent acting...watch this!! So many reviewers have stated that the conclusion of the movie is what loses it's potential. I don't agree with this. The acting was superb from all and the storyline was gripping, it really doesn't bother me that he manages to find out what's caused the evil behind the mirrors and actually resolved it (kinda) it was obvious that this was where the storyline was headed anyway. I do like movies that get to the route of issues, it gives the movie closure. Each to their own I guess, but I thought the whole movie was spot on and intriguing! Yes, Kiefer Sutherland did portray much of his Jack Bauer character, but I didn't mind that either, as I loved 24 too. Oh, and the bath scene with Amy Smart, wow, well done!! My advice, is to watch it!

climbingtiger957 just read the usual deep in depth conversations about the in depth junk about the depth of the movie blah blah blah.I'm a big horror fan and this was spot on ,as a scarer ,old fashioned gore ,tension ,even bits that were a bit rough to watch. i enjoyed this ,spooky atmosphere and the whole atmosphere of the film ,if your'e gonna go in and analyze every bit of it of course your'e gonna pick holes.messed up kiefer takes a security job in a disaster of a building where people were burn't to death in a store fire .the whole scenario as a security guard myself is nuts,I'm looking thinking there is no way i would go in where he just went ,which builds the tension .it all goes a bit mad and some points you think really !!this guys got balls of steel.and a bit nuts to throw in with it .like i said don't over analyze it ,it's just a horror flick made to scare and i think it did its job.

Python Hyena Mirrors (2008): Dir: Alexandre Aja / Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Mary Beth Peil, Cameron Boyce: Stupid morbid horror film about image and illusion. This film has a self praised illusion while its image is pure sh*t. Kiefer Sutherland plays an ex investigator who accepts a job at an abandon mall that has burned. Soon he begins to see images of burn victims including his own reflection. Director Alexandre Aja can set up scare sequences but the graphic violence should be toned down in favour of suspense. Sutherland pulls through as he struggles to deal with reality and the unknown and coming off crazy. Supporting roles aren't quite as broad. Paula Patton is featured as his wife in a role that is strictly standard and predictable. Amy Smart is wasted as his sister whose mirror image tears her jaw apart thus killing herself. All she needed was a trip to the dentist for that kind of action and she can make return trips. Mary Beth Peil appears as an aged institutionalized woman. After being part of this film she may need to go back. Cameron Boyce plays their son, and having a kid to mind screw is typical with these films. Horror films in the past ten years seem to be all about gore and guts and it is beginning to take the place of true suspense. Grossing viewers out isn't suspense, it's just disgusting. Well made visually with a screenplay that shatters before the second act. Score: 4 ½ / 10

BA_Harrison Director Alexandre Aja's Mirrors boasts a decent cast and stunning gore courtesy of FX experts Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero, but misses being a completely satisfying horror experience by failing to adhere to a convincing or consistent internal logic.At first, the mirrors are the gateway by which the evil force finds its way into our world; later, it can use any reflective surface—which is just as dumb as it sounds (almost any smooth surface has a reflection; it would be impossible to avoid them all!). The evil attacks the night-watchmen working at the department store, but doesn't bother with the old guard who patrols the building during the day. Most ridiculous is Ben Carson's continuing to work at the store, even after experiencing several supernatural incidents that would send most people screaming, never to return. These kind of problems plague the film to the end, seriously undermining its effectiveness.Still, at least the film doesn't wimp out on the gore, opening with a splattery throat slashing, giving us a yucky autopsy scene, and delivering a thoroughly shocking sequence in which Amy Smart suffers a grisly bathtub demise, her jaw ripped clean off her face (the same scene also provides the obligatory female nudity, Smart kindly baring boobs and butt before getting in the bath). Aja also sees fit to include that other popular mainstay of the genre: a fit bird in a tight white vest, Paula Patton as Carson's wife doing the honours, even going so far as to get all wet for the film's finale.5.5 out of 10, but I refuse to round it up to a 6 on account of that awful special effects scene in which Sutherland writhes unconvincingly in pain on the floor as he is burned by truly terrible CGI fire.