Cliché movie for the masses

Rating: 4/10 (17 May 2008)

Now, i have to believe Stephen King didn't write this. That is, the director (movie script writer) did a bad job making the novella into a movie. It's so full of clichés, it's basically a cliché movie.
Not knowing what the movie was supposed to be, it takes bits from so many different sci-fi horror movies. Made to please the casual viewer... Let's see: there are monsters which look, act and sound the same in dozens of other movies, a pretty standard main character (tall, dark athletic male with family), army experiment went wrong, a stubborn guy who always manages to find people like him,... The list goes on. Oh, and not to forget the tall as a house monster which is waiting for someone to leave the building, but just can't seem to figure out how to brake a glass window for a human treat. Then there's bugs coming out of bodies which are enveloped in some web...
All in all, it's an OK movie. Not very scary, quite predictable in fact. Maybe because it's structure came mail-ordered from a company named "Sci-fi horror movies script - Now with standardized variations".
I'm saying, watch the movie (it is a bit too long, although) and if you turn of your thoughts, you will enjoy it. However, Stephen King should not be pleased with this adaptation. It just... Should have been better.