not what I'd hoped for

Rating: 4/10 (18 May 2007)

To my surprise after seeing a test screening of 1408 I was extremely disappointed. I'm a long time Stephen King fan. I usually like his work when transferred from page to screen, but for me 1408 was all wrong. The plot seemed forced almost contrived to the point of being silly, and instead of being scared I was just hoping for it to get better as time went on. Sometimes even if it is a bad movie the cast can save it, but frankly for me the choices were all wrong. John Cusack will always be a comedy front man in my eyes he seemed really out of place in this movie. After doing a movie like Snakes on a Plane, I really can't take Samuel L. Jackson seriously, maybe that's just a personal thing. I really wanted to like this movie especially after such a promising trailer, but to be honest it just didn't do anything for me. I left the screening thinking 'I Hope King hasn't lost his touch" 1408 was not the thriller it wanted to be it was just another bad attempt to add into what seems like this years constant flow of disappointing horror movies. This is just my personal opinion maybe others will like this movie better than I did.