Hearts in Atlantis Reviews

Since I'm a big fan of Anthony Hopkins, I try to watch all his movies whenever I get the chance so I was really eager to check this movie. On the other hand, I have always been rather underwhelmed by Stephen King’s book adaptations so I wasn't sure what to expect. First of all, I really liked the look, the pace and the general mood of the movie which was very well directed by Scott Hicks who was also responsible for ‘Shine’. Furthermore, Hopkins but also Yelchin and Hope Davis all gave some very good performances. Unfortunately, I had a rather hard time to care about the story which was far from being really fascinating. Somehow, it reminded me of ‘The Green Mile’, another Stephen King story with a rather realistic background but still with a small dash of paranormal. In my opinion, King’s best stories were the realistic ones like ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ or ‘Stand by me’ (which both came from the same book as a matter of fact) and as soon as he starts to add some fantastic elements, those stories become much less intriguing, at least, that’s my opinion. Anyway, to conclude, even though it was nothing really amazing, I still think it is worth a look though, especially if you are interested in Stephen King’s work.