An abysmal suffocating experience.

Rating: 1/10 (12 March 2008)

*SPOILERS PRESENT* This is by far one of the worst movies I've seen in some time. Stephen's King's liberal politics spills over into an atrocity of a film. The acting in the film is very good, and should be commended. However, the liberal left wing bias throughout the whole movie is palpable, and just downright disrespectful to the audience, it's so evident that while at the movie theater I could overhear several audience members vocalizing their disbelief at the political undertones. Stephen King makes an obvious attempt to place his political views into the film as characters, and stereotypes. He wrote the film to portray the 'locals' as a group of redneck hillbillies which are pawns to a lunatic Christian woman. Stephen King uses this stereotype to set the Christians as evil in the film, he works as hard as he can to make all of the Christians appear to be dimwitted, violent, and outright ignorant throughout the entire film. Furthermore, the political undertones continue on to the military with the blame falling on them, to which they are promptly ostracized and thrown into the mist. Stephen King wrote the film in a way to blame all of these problems on the military, and all of the problems internally in the grocery store on Christians. I don't consider myself to be a very politically minded person, and I have a pretty tough skin when it comes to Hollywood and it's politics, but in the end the movie was completely terrible, it lacked interested, it seemed to go nowhere, few questions were answered, and at the end I felt like the only thing I witnessed was Stephen King pandering politics. The movie has an absolutely abysmal conclusion which any 13 year old child could have concocted in 30 seconds just before the bell rang. All in all, the CGI is horrific, the writing/scripting is biased, and the entertainment value is poor. The good parts of the film lay with the actors, the film has excellent acting.. which is probably the only thing worthy of mention.