1408 just another manufactured film

Rating: 4/10 (28 September 2007)

Well we all have seen it in the music industry, with the lack of truly original talent and craftsmanship produced. And I mean 1408 contains all the commercial tricks of how to sell bland garbage to the masses. It seems all to apparent that this film makes use of every type of trick in the book, stolen rite from some classic films made previous. Obviously the makers of this film didn't intend it to be viewed by mature film fans and I also can understand why its gone down well with a younger audience whom are ignorant to the art of films from which so much of this films content was stolen to make cold hard cash.
The film sets out rather promising with some mediocre filming that gives the film an edge of unease. You actually develop quite a strong relationship with the broken character and look forward to watching him plunder into the depths of hell. And with the quite a good performance but a simple part that Jackson plays your kind of expecting something hideous.
From then on your drawn into a kind of cocktail of surreal happenings that seem just plain wrong. The special effects just don't work at all like a badly doctored photograph and add to a confusion. The film takes you into a kind of Twilight Zone stroke The Shining with cinematography techniques to compliment but again are used from many types of movies before it.
Towards the end your even tormented by a harrowing sadness that could send some watchers into a raw depression.
So as you can tell after watching this film I was not at all impressed but I do actually like watching bad films because like anything when you get to point that you can look down at a film it say's you have seen some better ones.
My Ratings are Entertainment value 3, Mainstream entertainment value 7, Cinematography 6, Originality 2, Special effects 4, Acting 6, Watch again level 3, Cult level 4, and an overall 4.5
Conclusion is it will be favourable to the new age of movie goers but lacks any substance to give it anything more. I think the trailer will have made this film because it offered no insight into what was in room 1408.
My first comment on IMDb Richard Jackson