An average movie

Honestly, even though I have seen many of them, I'm not a big fan of Stephen King’s movie adaptations. Indeed, there are indeed a few great movies adapted from his books (‘The Shawshank Redemption’, ‘Stand by Me’, ‘The Shining’) but most of those adaptations are actually rather worthless. This flick basically falls in between, it is neither one of the good ones but not really a bad flick either . Indeed, the directing was decent and I enjoyed the mood created. Furthermore, as usual, Johnny Depp provided a good performance and it was nice to see him trying something else. Back in those days, Depp just became the king of the box-office and started to mostly focus on commercial features. Coming back to our main feature, unfortunately, the story was not really strong. Indeed, in my opinion, it was nothing original at all and actually rather predictable. Basically, it is one of those thrillers with a nice mood but with a really obnoxious ending. Even though it is supposed to surprise you, it is actually rather underwhelming and rather weakens the impact of the whole movie. Still, in spite of its flaws, it was fun to see Johnny Depp in a Stephen King thriller and I guess it is still worth a look though, especially if you like the genre.

6/10