Another idiotic Stephen King flick...

Rating: 2/10 (4 January 2008)

ARGH... Each time i get caught... Stephen King has amusing ideas but they can rarely be stretched beyond 20 minutes. After that, the stories get too thin, the explanations make no sense and the clichés become obvious.
This movie is an insult to intelligence. In classical Stephen King style, extraordinary things happen and are not explained or worse: the explanation is "...cuz...". The clichés in this movie are horrible: aggressive lawyer, smart ass city man, cute crying kid, sweet motherly teacher, nerdy grocery store clerk, hysterical religious nut.
Spoilers (not that there's any fun to be spoiled...) The story does not make any sense. Monsters appear, they are strong but they can't break through plate glass windows. The monsters are invincible and numerous, but the army just shows up and solves everything in 5 minutes. Monsters appear out of nowhere, but they think of cutting down phone lines. The whole preacher thing is an insult to religious people (and, being an atheist, I have no sympathy but this is way too much). The first monster is a cheap rip-off of several low-budget movies of the 80's.
The ending will go down in history as one of the dumbest cheap shot I have ever seen.
I could try to rate this movie on my crap-meter but the needle is stuck in the red.