Good moments, but it never really scores.

Rating: 6/10 (3 November 2010)

While occasionally (mildly) chilling, 1408 fails to really leave an impression. It has good ideas, but they don't go far enough (and they run out before the final act). It felt like too much of a light-weight,microwave horror film.
Cusack and Jackson are solid. Nothing more. The movie has a pace killing "fake resolution" that we know is just a dream. It goes on for too long and takes the viewer out of the story. It nearly recovers in the end with an (almost) ballsy ending, but chickens out at the last minute. Long story short, it's not interesting enough and Cusack should have died at the end.