I thought this film was just ok, and there were times that I started to get bored because let's be real now, we all knew that it was going to end one of two ways from a long ways out. I thought the angle of people going mad and deciding to attack the military was kind of silly but whatever, they needed to mix things up. To me it was just like "oh, 17 other people already tried this and got their heads blown off, but i'm gonna succeed," lol.
I can appreciate how this was going to make a ton of money though because with a general lack of salaries and the fact that this could be filmed literally anywhere in the countryside, means that production costs were always going to be relatively low. A payday was basically guaranteed and they have made tens of millions even before it hit streaming. For the most part you can't really go wrong, financially speaking anyway, with Stephen King stuff. Well, that is unless you throw a crap ton of money at something like Dark Tower and focus on spending on everything other than a comprehensible story and decent dialogue.
It's true that the film is predictable, but I didn't consider that a negative thing, and I understand the boredom. I must say that with a shorter running time, it might have been better. That's my only criticism of this film, which I think is a good version with a very good cast. I liked it because I watched it from the comfort of my home; if I had seen it at the theater, I don't think I would have liked it as much.
I think this film would have grossed more if it had been released at the beginning of the year, but despite the good reviews, it only grossed three times its budget. Luckily, it wasn't released in October, because from that month onwards it has been difficult for some films to gross more than their cost.
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