Distasteful take on a King's novel

Rating: 1/10 (21 March 2008)

There was a lot of "too many" and even more of "too much". Can't see why Frank Darabont didn't try to make a movie based on a game Half-Life and took the Stephen King's book instead... Well, except for the "low budget and tight schedule" thing. Darabont has no feeling of right proportion at all. He lacks it like any FM radio DJ who sits in a wrong chair. Marcia Harden overtakes the plot like some hungry creature from the Mist, making it her own movie inside the movie itself. Thomas Jane looks like he is being lost "by default". Not a hero, not a father, but some kind of deeply troubled half-brother who barely knows the kid, but "takes responsibility" when needed. The ending sequence with the howling of Lisa Gerrard (Dead can dance), slow-mo ride and four bullets for five people urges the spectator to shoot himself for allowing this half-baked production to get into his mind for more than 2 hours. Because if there is no logic, which was obviously sacrificed for the sake of Ending, then there is a little excuse for such "adaptation". It is nerve wrecking for the nerve wrecking sake. I could recommend it only to the kind of boring - and/or bored to death - folks who has absolutely NO LIFE at all.