Load of rubbish!!

Admirable film.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Its really shame people rate this movie so low, i mean yeah true not so many movies can be good as book and honestly you cant perfectly transfer book to a movie, but to give so many bad review's just because of that is stupud.. If you can get over that you will like movie cuz its damn good, and actors did pretty good job... Bottom line dont listen to bad reviews watch a movie give it a chance and you will see how good it is.

I haven't read the Stephen's King book or seen the 1979 Tobe Hooper's TV movie. From what I see this movie (or mini-series) is rather loosely adapted from the book. The story was heavily rewritten and the characters were updated for modern audiences ( Afghanistan , black homosexual). Those followers of King's novel will probably hate this movie. Those who have not closely read the novel will have a better chance of enjoying it. I didn't liked the movie not for the changes it made to the book ( loose adaptation can still be great movies - "The Shining") , but because of other problems.A frustratingly large amount of important events either take place inexplicably off-screen, or are simply bypassed and ignored. Lots of things are left unexplained. Even at three hours the plot somehow feels both rushed and bloated. The supporting cast is too large and poorly developed. The dialogues are weak too.The directing is also a problem . The mood changes from serious with attempts at social commentary to campy , from black humor to (not so) scary.This movie (or mini series) had 25 mln budget , yet there is nothing remarkable about production values and the special effects are rather poor. The music also feels cheap , especially the "dark" rock music.Good actors like Donald Sutherland and Rutger Hauer are wasted , because they have very little screen time . The leading star Rob Lowe is mediocre at best , same goes for James Cromwell and Andre Brauer. Samantha Matis (love interest) and Robert Mammone (doctor) were not bad.It's not the worst horror movie I've seen. It was mildly entertaining and engaging. There was a good movie here somewhere. At least it's better than "Dreamcatcher". I give it 2/10.

Whether you've read the book or not, this film is abysmal. For those who have read the book, the casting of this film couldn't get much worse. None of the characters really stay true to King's portrayal of them and the only decent acting comes from Rutger Hauer (Barlow) and Andre Braugher (Matt). The rest of the characters couldn't be further from the book and as such, ruin the film. Donald Sutherland who is otherwise a good actor is let down a lot in this film as he doesn't reflect the character of Straker whatsoever in appearance or manner. The acting on the whole borders on funny and this goes for the make up and special effects as well. The characters are about as deep as a paddling pool and at best the whole film is like a very low budget TV series. There's no real horror in it, even when the child is at Mark's window which is a truly harrowing scene in the book, there's nothing particularly chilling about it, perhaps only the music. By all means read the book, which is fantastic, but don't waste your time with the film.

First out, I have to say that this show contains perhaps the worst editing I've ever seen. There will never be a reason to release an extended version of this debacle, as the original is the "every frigging scene ever shot" version. Were the editors constantly drunk, on strike, cut out of the budget or just fled the scene when they realized what was coming from the cameras? Or were they just forced to fill the drama out with every piece of crap they could come up with, to fill out the two incredibly drawn out episodes with the promised TV time? The progress of the story is so slow and dull that I actually considered turning the whole thing off at least four times and I regret I didn't. The subplots are aggravatingly numerous, surprisingly ill-timed - thanks again, non-existent editors - dragging the tempo down to a constant freezing point and of nothing but the "Who the frigging cares!", "Just stop this!" and "For the love of... *sigh*" kinds. To make matters even worse, you feel no sympathy whatsoever for the incredibly non-believable soap opera characters. And to put the stake in the heart, basically every single (non-believable) character has the standardized main flaw of having the rationality of a drunk ship rat, making you almost wish just everyone will perish before you do.For classifying itself as a horror movie, it really set the question in my head if this wasn't really a parody that I was watching. As it's my firm belief it certainly wasn't the intention of being so, I can only conclude this show was downright laughable and amateuristic in basically every important element.My final question is; did any of the actors choose to participate in this show for any other reason than the money? You probably just have to read the pathetic manuscript to realize what was coming. Perhaps they didn't.