Good concept, poorly executed.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This has to be one of the worst horror movies I've seen. While the lead actress is good at what she does, the script is just beyond mind-numbingly boring and almost every conversation feels irrelevant and bland.Who wants to spend 2 hours listening to an over-the hill married couple arguing about nonsense? Not me, that's for sure.I really recommend everyone to not waste their time on this movie.

People keep saying it was too long for its own good, but honestly a lot of her sitting there and trying to figure out what to do is what makes it suspenseful enough to keep you going. Overall, wonderful adaptation. I loved it

Jessie and Gerald go to their lakehouse for a little end-of-season R&R which, hopefully, might help out their ailing marriage. Gerald interprets this as offering the opportunity to try out a little experimental bondage, and handcuffs Jessie to the bedhead. This is not to Jessie's liking but before Gerald can uncuff her, he suffers a fatal heart attack. Jessie is cuffed to the bed in a deserted cabin. Deserted, that is, apart from the dog who is eating her husband's corpse. Oh, and the serial killer on the loose.The book, like Misery, takes part largely within the protagonist's head. This presents some problems in terms of adaptation: internal monologues are inherently uncinematic. But Gerald - or, rather, Jessie's personification of him - is given a solid role to play here, because Jessie is not just trapped by her cuffs. We learn that her past, including Gerald, but going back to her childhood also, have trapped her just as effectively as the ill-judged bondage game.And kudos to this film for including the eclipse sequence including the very detailed reference to events in King's linked novel Dolores Claiborne. This sequence is atmospheric, evocative, and necessary: the manipulative emotional blackmail of Jessie's father was, for me, the most horrifying element of a story which otherwise traded on Jessie's claustrophobic powerlessness.There is a little gore and some extremely offensive language, all of which is entirely appropriate. And for a story which is essentially a two-hander, but Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood are first rate.This is one of the better King adaptations.

This movie would have been much better if it had been released a few years ago. Right now the whole thing is a bit tainted by the obvious "#metoo" movement.This movie is based on the amazing book by Stephen King. And if you remove the ridiculous ending the movie stays pretty true to the original source.The movie looks great, good pacing, acting is average.5/5