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Schoolgirl Kikan (Nirina Zubir) is known for playing macabre pranks on
her classmates - but during one such prank, she has an accident and is
knocked out for a few minutes, with nobody looking after her because they
think it's just part of her prank. When she finally comes to again, she
realizes she has acquired some weird gift: Whenever someone is soon
to die, she can't see them in the mirror anymore. It happened with the
janitor, and with her neighbours already, so when she fails to see her
teacher in a mirror during class, she totally breaks down in front of
everybody. At first, everyone thinks she's just back to her old tricks,
but when the teacher really dies later on, everybody gets freaked out by her,
which is only fuelled by Dea (Ichi Nuraini), a frequent target of Kikan's
pranks who also hates her because Doni (Jonathan Mulla), the boy she's in
love with, is in love with Kikan - despite the fact that Kikan has
frequently turned him down. While everyone else tries to avoid her, Doni
frequently comes by Kikan's house, and after being turned down repeatedly,
he is eventually let into Kikan's house - and heart. But while at first
everything seems perfect, it soon turns bad when Kikan fails to see her
own reflection in her mirror ... instead though, she starts seeing
spirits. Kikan does everything to prevent herself from dying, but in fact
she has very little idea how to prevent that - so ultimately, she decides to visit a
psychic. She has an accident on the way to him, but survives. Bruised and
battered she arrives at the psychic's place, but he can tell her no more
than "love is the answer" and the like. Kikan arrives back
home, where obviously a wake is taking place. In panic she looks for her
mum and dad, but they are both alive. Only then does Kikan look into the
coffin to find herself dead. Running from her home, she runs into the
psychic again, who tells her that she has indeed died but kept on earth in her
spirit-like form until se has confessed her love to Doni ... which she
does in the end. Mirror is certainly nothing special,
but as a horror flick taking its cues from any number of J-horror movies
and The Eye by the Pang Brothers, it does quite well, featuring
many a creepy scene, some unexpected shocks and a strong central
performance by Nirina Zubir. Only the love story about two thirds into the
movie is a bit too cheesy to properly work, as is the ending that picks up
on this narrative thread again, but in all, the film might not be overly
original but it's quite watchable nevertheless.
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