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Desperation (2006)

Horror | 131 minutes
2,48 394 votes

Genre: Horror

Duration: 131 minuten

Alternative title: Stephen King's Desperation

Country: United States

Directed by: Mick Garris

Stars: Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber and Annabeth Gish

IMDb score: 5,3 (12.305)

Releasedate: 23 May 2006

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Desperation plot

"In this town, there are no accidents."

A group of people are arrested on the Nevada highway, near the town of Desperation, by a possessed police officer. They don't know that this agent needs human bodies to survive...

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Leno

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It starts off nice, the setting is nice, and Perlman is fun. However, the draft soon sets in; it looks cheap and the cast is very mediocre. Soon the characters start to irritate, especially the boy, and the tension is hard to find. The long running time is totally unjustified and with difficulty I made it to the end of the film.

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Film Pegasus (moderator films)

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Desperation is a typical Stephen King story and is certainly not a bad idea. Unfortunately, the translation to the big screen is not always successful. Even though this is a TV movie, it's pretty dated for a 2006 movie. You'd guess it's early 90s when you see the quality of the visuals. The whole thing is quite soft. And that cast... Only Ron Perlman was not that bad I must say. Annabeth Gish was always the least of the X-Files, but perhaps still one of the few who feels somewhat at home. Tom Skeritt has only one good movie and that's Alien. It's not too bad here, but it reminded me a bit of a cheap version of Kris Kristofferson. Also rather colorless figures. And that stuff about religion again is something that will work better in America than here.

Good advice: read the book and, as with most Kings, ignore the film adaptation. By the way, I had to smile when he refers to his great writer competitor Dean Koontz. But it was nothing more than a smile in this film. Unfortunately.

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Lovelyboy

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It's been a few years since I first tried this one with great interest, but it didn't become a real success, just like the book that didn't catch on with me before with its 'ak' and 'tak'. Well, even with a King fan it can stay dry or rain. The question was mainly what was wrong with this Desperation and that's why I picked it up again, because even a bad King is sometimes quite good...

The start is certainly not bad with Collie Entragian who haphazardly picks up people and takes them to the place Desperation where things are not right. Perlman is in good shape and the atmosphere is nice until character Collie disappears from the picture. After that, it is mainly the religiously ill and much too wise boy David who gets the focus and becomes the main character, something which is not a good development since the kid is not interesting and the film/series gets something very well-behaved after that. Now faith and God are often part of King films/series and books such as in The Stand, yet all balance is lost here.

Kelly Overton, the hitchhiker, is a nice appearance who makes up for a lot, but her frightened character doesn't. Skerritt and Weber try to make the most of it in this product whose music becomes more and more sentimental and the tempo more erratic by the minute. No, it should be clear that this is not much, and that is what the figure is based on.

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