This movie, plain and simple sucked.

Rating: 1/10 (28 December 2007)

It was irritating, from the beginning to the end. cliché after cliché, and what's worse, is that everyone one of these clichés (country town in the middle of nowhere, army base, "Aww shucks" white people, stupid swearing teen, crazy religious lady etc) are drawn out and made the main themes of the movie, especially the crazy religious lady who preaches, LITERALLY- not the first scene, not the second scene, but in ALL but two scene in this movie. They were not even humorous clichés, as the characters took their stupidity so seriously to the point where it was irritating. The acting is very predictable and stale. It has a few gory scenes here and there, but not even close to being frightening only laughably ridiculous. I squirmed in my seat not from fear but from pure boredom and annoyance at the films repetitiveness, predictability, sappy dialogue, and drawn out, boring, "put-me-to-sleep" plot and characters. Speaking of characters, most annoyingly was the supposedly heroic leading man's helplessness against a crazy old lady who somehow managed to brainwash everyone in the store, (except for the "good guys") in less than 48 hours. To top it all off, the music was HORRIBLE. Deep, depressing organ tones, with an Enya like choir moaning in the background carried on for about 10 minutes at a time. I literally had to plug my ears and grit my teeth at the theater to avoid simply walking out, because despite all this, I DID want to know how it all ended. But alas, not even the ending is satisfying as none of the questions are answered and you don't witness how, or even IF, the giant monsters are destroyed, it simply "just ends," almost as abruptly as the Sopranos.
It's not scary. It's boring. It's sad and surprising that it's a Stephen King film. And ultimately it's a waste of time and money.