Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2018)

After a nice opening, quite faithful to the book, the movie turned episodic, offering up one truncated/modified (modernized) scene after another while lamely sniffing at it's epic source, the novel. No tension, certainly never scary (altho plenty of cheap jump scares attempts,) generous iffy kid acting and you have a disappointing, but not terribly terrible movie that in all fairness, because of it's source's epic scale, may not be film-able, even as Part I. Kudos to the DP for his work. Watch Carrie instead.