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The pace of the story moves in almost Herculean strides and, in covering a complex plot at pace, it manages to avoid the common error of leaving the viewer behind.

The plot swithers this way and that.

While the gags are aimed squarely at a family audience, there’s nothing wrong with that and this is certainly a film you could take even tiddlers to without worrying they are going to have nightmares later.

Hoblit and Emmerich try to engage the viewers' brains rather than using the set-up as an excuse to crowbar in action scenes at every chance.

The Mist has to introduce its beasties very early – and herein lurks the problem.

A handful of the passengers may eventually get out of the ship alive, but in this massive overhaul of The Poseidon Adventure (1972), nothing, it seems, can save them from Mark Protosevich's sinking script.

If it weren’t so po-faced it might pass as a bit of good, guilty fun.

It lacks the energy and precision vital to any journalistic investigation, and especially to one taking place under this kind of pressure.