The Dead Zone (Stephen King)

This is a great great film, christopher walken shines in this wonderful, creepy sad tale..........after an accident walken wakes up to find he can see the future.............but not all is good.........can he save the world or will he do nothing.......10 out of 10 if you aint seen this film.....shame on you...........buy it, watch it, luv it

Johnny Smith (Walken) has a unique gift in which he can see into the past and look into the future to which can be useful for those he comes into contact with. When young women are being brutally raped and murdered Johnny uses his amazing gift to track down the culprit. Excellent!

This film adaptation of a Stephen King's novel was a big hit worldwide and blasted director, David Cronenberg into the big time.
It's a story of one unlucky man who has the misfortune of being given one of the greatest gifts, to see the future. The gift can give you God-like power and puts you in a situation where you must be big decisions.
Christopher Walken delivers a knockout performance throughout, he's a likeable character who you can't help but feel for. He's believable in the role, he looks the part and plays it to perfection.
The writing is quite good but I do feel it's a flat. The story doesn't go as deep as I would've hoped, there's a lot of mini-elements but nothing really big which can be bitten onto. Charlie Sheen's character only turns nearer the end of the movie and is portrayed as one of the main characters. Perhaps if he was introduced into the movie a lot earlier, or if the crime story element had lasted longer it might've received 5/5 from me.

Overall: Dead Zone is a very entertaining movie, I felt no boredom whatsoever but a the end I still felt a little thirsty for more. The story could've went deeper and could've been a real massive hit.
Having said that, Dead Zone is still a great movie, it's one of those Stephen King novel's which just works brilliantly on the big screen.
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