Following his accidental killing of a fellow officer, Bauer, er, Ben (Sutherland) is on suspension, on the wagon, and on the edge. He’s also on the nightshift at a gutted department store in central New York, and on the receiving end of nasty visions in the massive mirrors.
After discovering that previous security guards have disconcertingly taken to killing their families or themselves, Ben attempts to unlock the mystery of what's haunting the building.
The 24-like race around the NYC and into rural backwaters becomes more urgent when he realises the ghosts have taken up residence in his family’s mirrors and are crossing the spectral plain to nab his wife (Patton) and two wide-eyed rugrats...
Following the empty nastiness of Switchblade Romance and his Hills Have Eyes remake, Alexandre Aja is attempting some kind of respectability with Mirrors. But, he can’t let the gore go, getting off to a spurty, throat cutting start and including several spectacular eviscerations, one of which will leave everyone’s jaw on the floor.
The comically intense Sutherland gives a shouty performance that has him threatening an old man with torture, holding a nun at gunpoint, and coming out with frightful howlers (“Stay away from the water, it causes reflections!”).
Elsewhere, Patton's cleavage grows in direct correlation with the onscreen chills, and Brit Jason Flemyng cameos as a cop friend.
9:28AM, Sep 28, 2009
