An almost obsessively faithful adaptation of the Stephen King novella, which, like most of King's stories, is essentially a screenplay already. It's deja-vu all over again, because it's filmed on location at a deserted Bangor Airport, which King described so vividly in the book. Good thing he hadn't set it at busy JFK or Heathrow--almost as if he knew it would be made into a movie. Hmm.... The computer animations near the end are a little cheesy, as is the doting reliance on the actors' earnest mugging to convey horror. The computer stuff should have been blurred just a little so that imagination could give it the benefit of a doubt. King's philosophical take on the nature of time is thought-provoking in a mystical kind of way. Fun, if you like King type stuff.
Review of The Langoliers
