An overly lengthy Stephen King film

Rating: 3/10 (12 April 2020)

I've never read the book and honestly don't care about deviations, but what I do care about is runtime. This movie is two hours and fifty minutes long! That's long enough to be split into two separate movies.
If I'm being honest, a lot of things feel completely pointless, like Bowers. He stabs Eddy in the face and dies. That's it. Completely pointless character that did not need to be in the movie at all.
They split up the characters for 90 minutes in the middle for each of them to get their token and experience a nightmare. They already experienced the "it's not real" nightmare before at the restaurant, so I don't know why they acted so scared and surprised when Pennywise scared them with illusions again.
The little kid at the Chinese restaurant was pointless. Phil follows him around for a while, only to have him be killed off anyways like the girl in the beginning. Not really necessary.
They also included a bunch of homophobic characters, because everyone that's not a main character in a Stephen King movie is a dick. A man gets beaten to death at the beginning for being gay and Pennywise eats him in the river, but neither of them reappear, making them also pointless.
It's also got your standard Stephen King cliches like the writer, the drinker, the scaredy cat, the commit, the unexplain psychic power that a character has, and so forth.
TLDR: This is the first movie done wrong.