You expect much more from a Stephen King movie

Rating: 4/10 (24 April 2009)

First of all: All the biased comments don't help anybody. Beside all discussions the movie is particularly entertaining, but has major downsides, as all the negative posts show. So everybody who gives this movie a 1 or a 9/10, doesn't judge deliberately.
I didn't read the book but I looked it up at IMDb and a Stephen King 7.4 should be worth watching. The beginning showed promise. But as the movie goes on, it becomes predictable and the storyline is adjusted by stupid decisions of the characters.

The cliché with the stupid workers (who want to open the gate) is predictable and simple knitted

The judge who doesn't believe the tentacles (when offered proof) is not plausible

People kept light on when the insects came, they also kept light on every time after wards when they went outside

At the pharmacy it was shown that the creatures used human bodies for the spawn. What about the girl working at the supermarket who got a similar throat swelling after the insects bit her?

All the people shortly converting to fanaticism was not believable, too.

Going outside to the pharmacy after a boy got killed when he tried to step a foot outside at the gate. Just for possibly rescuing the burned man. Very intelligent move ...

For making it plausible to go outside another time and take the risk with the car, ALL the other people had to convert to fanaticism. That alone is weird. But after their "leader" got killed they simply stepped back. If they were really so aggressive and into it, a bloody war would have began.

When they got stuck with the car - which was highly anticipated - they were alone at the highway, no creatures nearby. So why didn't they take the food after they killed the leader? The creatures arrived just 2 days before. Much to early to give up all the hope. Especially by this characters. Then he shot all others. Why not ... WALK, they took the risk when they knew they were creatures here, on the highway, they don't. Plus: They have 4 Shots.

The stupidity really hurts in this movie.