Starts very well, extremely disappointing second half.

Rating: 6/10 (2 November 2010)

This adaptation started out very enjoyable, but finished poorly.
I get the feeling (with a certain sour deja-vu) that the movie was written by someone who didn't really appreciate the details of the (very good) source material, and, surprise surprise, who thought their ideas were -so- much better than what the author had come up with.
Wrong.
Where the movie diverges sharply from the original story is where it loses all the atmosphere that has been built up - which is a terrible shame, because there is a lot of well-constructed suspense, the acting is excellent, and there is even a little dark humour thrown in.
My suggestion would be to read the story as King wrote it. It won't take as long, and the ending's better.