In the Electric Mist

Excellent acting by Tommy Lee Jones. Depressing settings.

Looks like it good be a half decent film if only I could tell what they were saying. Their speech is incoherent especially the ones mumbling through facial hair. I wear hearing aids and there are no subtitles. My husband has excellent hearing and even he struggled to interpret what they were saying. Switched off in frustration about 20 minutes in.

Terrible writing, acting, storyline, and plot, otherwise just great, to be fair I could only watch it for about 30 minutes before turning it off so perhaps it got a lot better but I doubt it.

The acting and cast were good, but that's where it stops. The writing, plot, storyline, director ( not sure where to point the finger) leave much to be desired. Two storylines that never connect, truly disappointing.

I enjoy Tommy Lee Jones, but this movie has multiple problems with its story, side characters, and its pacing. Very disappointed.

A well acted mystery with a underrated score by Oscar Nominee Marco Beltrami (Dracula III: Legacy, The Emperor of Paris)

NO, just no. Such glitzy acting names, 10 with real acting chops. Waste of talent, waste of time. Pacing awful. Writing iffy at best. Story dragged, felt like goin nowhere. Editing absent. Sorriest movie I've ever seen with Tommy Lee.

I really love In The Electric Mist. Looks like a lot of people disagree with me. But I like the actors in it, the theme of injustice and racism and trying to make a difference. And the dead Civil War characters appearing out of the mist. And, of course, Buddy Guy! I've watched it many times, and always enjoy it.

Confusing, bland, and slow despite the short runtime. The hallucinations made no sense, nothing really happened for half of the film, the characters were generic and predictable, with some barely having any purpose, there was no character development, and the entire shooting the prisoner plot felt disconnected from the serial killer investigation. To top it all off, the ending was too abrupt and failed to explain much. The cinematography, visual effects, and soundtrack were all mediocre. However, some of the acting was acceptable. Not worth a watch.

I watched this on Roku as a free movie, so at least I didn't pay for it (aside from my monthly charge). This one stunk. I did not read the book as I am sure it was probably better than the movie. However, this movie was laughable. Tommy Lee Jones looks like a grandparent (well he probably is...), and has a seven year old daughter?!? Weird. The guy can barely walk anymore an we are supposed to believe he is an active police detective? Limping through his scenes we feel more sorry for his deterioration than for his character's situation. Of course there is the obligatory cop fight scene where TLJ beats up on someone thirty years younger than him (I wonder how many takes that took?) and, no, it does not play, other than to make me laugh a little. Also, the whole Confederate Ghost-Colonel-Solider thing is confusing. What the heck is going on here? Of course, I first thought that the movie makers were going in a good direction of an old man with dementia, which would have made sense in this context, but sadly, that was not the track they took. The storyline with the Hollywood actor (played by a British guy affecting a southern accent) is meaningless in this context, other than to get his girlfriend killed when TLJ inadvertently gives her his coat. The killer-reveal at the end is disappointing too. I would have thought a strange twist or, or maybe something with the John Goodman character (why was he even in this story?) but turns out an old white guy did it, for reasons that are not revealed? Also, the killer is a racist that helped murder an African-American 40 years ago or something. Which TLJ apparently witnessed as a boy?!? He is obviously older than the kilelr so I'm not sure how he was a little boy when he saw the murder. Nothing in this turd adds up anyway. As is wraps up it turns out that this polo wearing detective shows up in an old photo of the lost regiment in a book his daughter is reading. Hahahaha. Plus the director take the shot where he is in the picture, over the shoulder of the seven year old so you can't really see TLJ in the pic at all, and she calls him Dave (rather than Dad) which is probably more truth than fiction:) Anyway, skip this one if you can. Too much going on, and confusing throughout.