Sean Burns:

Lacking any shred of common sense or internal logic, THE MIST instead goes for hamfisted social commentary, positioning Marcia Gay Harden as a psycho Jesus freak (there's one of those in every King story, isn't there?) delivering endless, grinding monologues that somehow convert these terrified supermarket patrons into bloodthirsty soldiers of God pitted against one another.

At least King's not into religious bigotry and stereotypes -- like the obsessive fanatics he portrays in his stories are.