walken...so intense! (The Dead Zone (DVD))

Member Name: pioneer66

Product:	The Dead Zone (DVD)
Date:	18/06/01 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: easy access

Disadvantages: a bit tame

Christopher Walken is (johnny smith) a school
teacher who leaves his fiancee's house one night and then goes and rights of his car and puts himself in a coma .........five years pass and this guy wakes up.
His loving fiancee got fed up of waiting for him and married some other fella (nice).
but this is far from Johnny's major problem, if this guy touches you he gets a quick glimps into you future.
Now this is all well and good, however if you try and help someone who you see a vision of them lets say"falling through ice in a hockey match on a frozan lake" and they don't belive you what do you do?
And let's say you shake the hand of a politition and get a vision of this mad man causing a nuclear war...now that would really piss you off.
David Cronenberg directs this movie and shows remarkable restraint gone are his trademarks of gore and "show it all"gross out effects.
I feel the movie benefits from this aproach and anyway David got to do all the gore he could lay his hands on when he remade THE FLY in 1986.

Now there are very few movies that stay with you for a long time....this is one of them. Ok i must confess that i'm a big walken fan but that by no means detracts from the outstanding creepeness of this tale. The film runs along at a nice pace and is full of sceans that should chill you to the bone. Now i'm not the greatest stephen king fan...to be honest The Shinning bored the pants of me and most of his tales that have made it to the big screen have not stood the test of time.This movie is not hard work to get in to so sit back grab the popcorn get your girl in the mood and get ready to enjoy one of the most overlooked and underated scary movies of recent years.

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