2003 - Rated R - 2 hr 16 min
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Jason Lee, Damian Lewis, Timothy Olyphant, Tom Sizemore, Donnie Wahlberg
What a weird movie this is. But it's Stephen King, so you know... it happens. There are aliens and weird worm virus thingies and a super-smart kid with mental problems who grows up to be Donnie Walhberg... and then can kill the bad alien guys.
This is one of those movies that you watch and follow along and everything seems okay... then you get to the end and you kinda feel like you've been punched in the head or something. What the hell did I just watch? you may ask yourself. You followed it, it was making sense... but when you take stock of the whole 2+ hours you can't really remember how you got from point A to B. You know what I mean?
Good cast though, so that part is lots of fun. There's lots that goes unexplained and I suppose, for the purposes of this movie, that's a good thing. To watch this one, you've got to be able to just accept some weird stuff. If you're new to Stephen King, this might not be the first one to watch... just sayin'.
I like this one more than most other people I've talked to about it. It's not perfect but I like the work of the cast and the whole notion of the storage space inside a character's mind is perfectly realized.
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