Product: The Dead Zone [VHS] (1983)
Rating: 4.0
A complete overhaul...
As always, the book is better, but this film does a fairly decent job of getting the point across. All the essential plot elements remain: Johnny Smith gets into an automobile accident, Johnny Smith goes into a five year coma, Johnny Smith wakes up to discover that his entire life is just about gone (girlfriend gone, job gone, legs just about useless), but in a way God has thrown him a bone by giving him the power of second sight with a simple touch of someone's hand. All the touching, heartwarming details of story remain. It's still an extremely sad story about a life gone terribly wrong, and a man's slow decent into lonely madness, and there's no doubt that this is Christopher Walken's immortal classic performance. As always, though, I beg you to read the novel first.Oh, yeah, and the music is great too...