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Absolutely the worst movie.

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Okay, I see many people have reviewed this movie already, and the critical ones seem to either be fans of the book who hate the adaptation, or people who haven't read the book and thought it was boring. To the first group my question is: You thought the book was any good? I'm sorry, but this book turned me off Stephen King, and I guess I won't quickly read any of his new books anymore. Yes the main theme of his books always was the struggle between good and evil, but in this book he made it so blatantly religious it's simply offensive. Being critical about the character of God doesn't change anything about that, especially because there are no justifications given for this so- called supreme being whatsoever. The characters ask the question: If there's a God, why is he so cruel, the lame answer comes from David (and is confirmed by the plot). There is a God, best not to ask any more questions about him. Well wow, give the man a Nobel prize, hallelujah. What kind of an answer is that? Making the hero of a book a teenage boy with a Jesus complex is such a cop-out. How does he know anything? Because God tells him. Why doesn't God tell him important stuff like, best not drive down that road, there's a monster there who's gonna kill your entire family? Unanswered. "God is Cruel". Wow. If I were a Christian, I would be offended by that. Being an atheist it just makes me angry that religion is being presented as the solution, while glossing over all the evil things this God dude is clearly up to. The movie makes no effort to mask the "praise-the-lord-do-not-ask- difficult-questions" mentality either, the producers must have thought there was a market for a bible-belt evangelist horror flick. Instead of using a God-driven plot to actually discuss the difficulties this imaginary friend brings to the party, it presents the questions and answers them in the lamest possible way. "God is cruel, love him and serve him, or else some sicko-cop from hell is going to suck your soul out through your nose." That message spoke to me both from the book, and from the film. It amazes me they got together a halfway decent cast for this one. The cop is played very convincingly. A bit dumb to kill him halfway through the movie. Then there's Tom Skerrit's character. Again : Great actor, wasted on a script full of unrealistic God-fearing bull. The boy is okay as well, but I really pity that little fellow. Anyone having seen him in this movie with half a braincell will forever associate him now with a smart-ass Jesus-freak who claims to be special, but has no real answers to anything. Pardon my french, but this was one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen in my life, and if you think it spoke to you on some deep spiritual level, please, grow up, let go of your mysterious imaginary friend on a cloud, and understand you were duped. For any atheist, stay away from this film, stay FAR away from it.

First off, I would like to say that Desperation is my all-time favorite book. Then I have to say that, this is a terrible adaptation of it. The book focuses on David Carver's connection to God and how it connects to the events going on in Desperation. Personally, I'm completely agnostic but the way the movie portrays Carver's connection to God is not deep enough. In the novel, it's a lot more than just "I'm doing things because God told me to". That is the biggest flaw in the movie. I could go on and on about how the acting is terrible and the script sounds like it was written by a middle schooler and the cheap special effects for TAK, but i'm just gonna leave it at...trust me...read the book, skip the movie

Excitable Nevada patrolman Collie Entragian, who regularly railroads innocent travelers into the prison of an apparently-abandoned sheriff's station, holds the key to a decades-old mystery surrounding the mining town and its former residents. TV-made adaptation of Stephen King's book, by King himself, is a meandering collage of brutality. As Entragian, Ron Perlman starts where "The Shining"'s Jack Nicholson left off; with chapped lips and raw crisscross scars on his face, Perlman definitely looks menacing, but what is the character after all? The Bogeyman (with a big mouth) in desert light? He browbeats and brutalizes a group of terrified vacationers, going head-to-head with a child who uses Christianity as a defense. It's a mind-bogglingly overwrought enterprise, with cartoonishly-ugly dialogue that browbeats the viewer as well. Technical aspects well up to par, yet any style or talent which went into "Desperation" is flogged by King's loathsome script.

I watched this after I read the novel, which I thought was awesome.The actors I thought were pretty good, especially Ron Pearlman who played the psychopathic cop, Collie Entragian. The special effects and the cinematography were pretty good as well.They kept the film very close to the awesome novel. Until it got to the middle because they cut out some of the most important scenes from the book that they didn't put in the film, for example, in the book they meet another character, hiding in the ruins of the town. They also find much more of the history of the town. They cut out all this in the film, which was disappointing.The ending, I thought I was very disappointed because they fitted bits that were very cheesy, that didn't fit the novel at all.I would rather read the novel first before watching the film. But still I thought it was pretty good.