It's Dull...

Rating: 5/10 (8 October 2019)

I wasn't too impressed with this one, unfortunately. It felt stretched out and could easily lose at least half-an-hour of its run time. The adult characters were nowhere near as well written or - surprisingly - portrayed as their junior equivalents and the CGI was often a wee bit shaky. I understand that there was meant to be a sort of twisted 'circus' quality about some of the monsters but even so some of them were rather unconvincing.
The first film wasn't particularly scary but there was a pervading sense of menace - that seemed to dissipate this time and the first hour or so began to drag. The chap a few seats down from me was snoring from pretty early on and I cannot really blame him.
The second half of the original TV mini-series was weaker than the first (as was the book, to be fair) but this second chapter of the new film failed to avoid the same fate.
A very big missed opportunity, but that goes for quite a few adaptations of Stephen King's deceptively hard to film work. He creates character and scenarios then describes them at length, somehow without overdoing it. It's a trick that some of the directors/writers of the cinematic/TV versions need to learn.