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Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mistery Director : Alexandre Aja The main character: Ben Carson Starring: Kiefer Sutherland

Story line
Ben Carson (Kiefer Sutherland), a suspended police detective, begins his first day as a night security guard at the Mayflower, a luxury department store that was gutted by a fire and shuttered for close to a decade. The building still contains numerous mirrors from the store. On Ben's first night of patrol he finds a mirror that appears to be covered with handprints, but only on the reflected side of the glass. Over time, Ben begins to see intense visions, which he initially shrugs off as hallucinations. He soon finds the wallet of Gary Lewis, the previous night guard. Inside is a note that says "Esseker". After viewing Garys crime photos Ben is convinced that the mirrors make people do things to themselves that they are not actually doing.

Ben's sister is killed. Ben is distraught when he finds her body. In anger, he attempts to destroy the mirrors at the Mayflower, but they are impervious to damage. He demands to know what the mirrors want, and cracks appear on one of the mirrors, spelling out the word "ESSEKER". Ben founds out that esseker comes from a patient of the psychiatric hospital named Anna Esseker. She was twelve years old at the time and died in a mass suicide.

Because of an Authorization and Consent form stating that she had been discharged from the hospital two days before the suicide and is led to believe that Anna is still alive. Ben locates Anna Esseker's childhood home, and discovers that as a child she was violent and uncontrollable, and diagnosed with severe schizophrenia.

Ben is told by her brother that when she returned, apparently cured, strange things started to happen with the mirrors in their home.As a result her family sent her to a convent, Saint Augustine's Monastery, where mirrors are forbidden. Ben visits the convent, and finds Anna, who explains that she was actually possessed by a demon, which was drawn from her and became trapped in the mirrors. She explains that it collects the souls of those it kills and if she were to return it would make it possible for the demon to be brought back into the mortal world.

The main character

Ben Carson is the main character of the film. He makes things to happen. Ben Carson is an alcoholic ex-detective, taking pills for anxiety and depression. He divorced his wife Amy, with whom he has two children and now he lives at his sister Angela, who convinced him to get a new job. Thus he was hired as a watchman at the Mayflower shop. Although strange things happen around him, Ben ignores them, putting them on the lack of alcohol. Ben Carson is a hero that sacrifices himself to save his family from the perils. After many failed attempts to escape this "curse of the mirrors", Ben finally succeeds to realise how to break out of the curse, but unfortunately he becomes the curse itself,getting behind the mirror.

Starring
Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland (born 21 December 1966) is an English-born Canadian actor, producer and director. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Jack Bauer on the Fox series 24 for which he won an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Satellite Awards. He currently stars as Martin Bohm in the Fox drama Touch, he also had un important role in the Mirrors movie.

Memorable sequence
Ben's sister, Angela (Amy Smart) is killed by her reflection as it grips its jaw and slowly pull its mouth apart, causing her to bleed profusely.This scene is very disturbing but it is interesting to think of how this scene was made and how much effort was put in it. If we think about that the scene becomes quite fascinating.

Impact on the audience

The film received generally negative reviews. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 14% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 84 reviews.Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 35 out of 100, based on 13 reviews.

Recommending
Because we saw this movie and we found it very interesting being a movie that keeps you guessing until the last moment, we want to recommend this movie to all the thriller movies lovers.

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