REVIEW: Mirrors is a watchable flick

A death scene in the first five minutes is very good way to begin a horror story. Not very innovative, but some blood-spraying does set the mood for some more. A man tries to escape from mirrors, but ends up locked in a room where all the lockers open to show his reflection. He apologises profusely to the largest mirror, which starts developing cracks as the man approaches it. A shard falls off and he picks it up to put it back in place, but his reflection artfully slashes his own throat, and experiencing the unpleasant effects of that act, the man dies with blood gushing from his ripped throat...

THE MIRROR STARES BACK HARD

Kiefer Sutherland plays Ben Carson, a former undercover cop who has been suspended for shooting another officer. Carson takes up a night-time job at a department store which was gutted by fire and discovers mirrors have a mind of their own. He describes his eerie experiences with the mirrors to his younger sister, who asks him to quit his job and insinuates he seek professional help. Immediately after, she dies a gruesome death in her bathtub. As it turns out, the department store used to be a hospital for treating psychiatric patients, and Carson makes the connection between the mirrors and his sibling's end and decides to solve the matter once and for all.

To make things harder for Carson, he is an alcoholic trying very hard to keep his drinking problem under control, and his wife (who he has separated with) refuses to believe him, citing the medication he uses for his alcoholism has made him cuckoo.

Infuriated at his sister's death, Carson is adamant and determined to do whatever it takes to save the rest of his family. He then nosedives into the problem, digging up facts from everywhere possible...

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