Lacking in... everything.

Rating: Null/10 (23 February 2002)

For those who have not read the book by Stephen King, this movie may come off as fairly interesting. For those who HAVE read the book, it may disapoint. Don't get me wrong, it followed the novel... as well as a movie could.
The book is fascinating, because of the way it's written. Believe it or not, the plot is rather thin... but the writing is brilliant. It switches off from 3rd person, to Carrie's point-of-view, to "articles" supposedly taken from local newspapers after the fact. This redeeming quality of the novel cannot be transferred to film... so all the movie could possibly have to go on is a flimsy plot and a reasonably-sized budget.
The adaption lacks character developement, and often contains overly dramatic "dun dunn duunnnn" style musical-stings, which makes it seem more like an episode of a 70's sitcom than a horror movie.
I must give credit to Carrie (Sissy Spacek), for doing such a wonderful acting job with what she was given (nothing).
OVER-ALL: As good as a movie adaption of Carrie could've been, which isn't very good at all. 4/10