Rating: 
Summary: Good story, bad character portrayal
Review: I have read the reviews given by others on this site and want to comment on those first. True, the special effects are terrible if you compare them to Hollywood blockbusters like Armageddon or Star Wars but this film was originally made for TV and therefore one should not expect spectacular effects. With that in mind, I would say that the special effects in this film are passable. I read the original short story in Four Past Midnight and I loved it so I was very excited when I learned it was being turned into a movie. As any King fan will tell you, his amazing ability to create characters is outstanding. That however was the downfall of this movie. The characters were great but most of the actors chosen to play them did not even come close to doing them justice. The only acceptable performances in my opinion were David Morse (who later played Brutal on the Green Mile, one of the best movies of all time) who played the Pilot Brian Engle, Dean Stockwell who played Bob Jenkins, a mystery writer, and Mark Lindsay Chapman who played Nick Hopewell. The rest of the cast were just horrible. Despite the three aforementioned actors they still could not have been expected to save this movie's characters with the horrible dialog present in every scene. This was obviously edited for television and really took away the effect present in the book. The bottom line: If sub-par special effects, bad acting, and horrible dialog do not bother you then check out this movie, it's actually not too bad all things considered. I still liked it despite what all I've said here.
Rating: 
Summary: One of Stephen King's best miniseries.
Review: The Stand, Storm of the Century, and It are generally considered to be Stephen King's best made-for-TV films, though I would add The Langoliers to that list. Generally quite underrated, this is a thriller in the vein of the recent Cube. It is essentially about a group of people who are placed in a baffling nightmare that has seemingly no end. All you should know about the premise is that 10 people awaken from a flight to Boston to find everybody else missing. From there on, the movie takes you on a very suspenseful and interesting ride. There's also good acting from the always reliable David Morse, Dean Stockwell, Mark Lindsay Chapman, and Bronson Pinchot. Admittedly, the movie does sometimes have that made-for-TV look, but it's made up for by the story, King's imaginative premise and execution. I, for one, am glad to see a horror film in which the characters have to think their way out of their dire situation. If you're looking for sharp thrills, an intelligent script, and lots of suspense, then The Langoliers comes highly recommended.
Rating: 
Summary: Ouch
Review: I didn't like this movie at all for lots of reasons : 1. The plot = totally confusing or rather senseless
2. The screenwriting = totally unprofessional
3. The acting = Excellent when you think how crap the whole thing was.
4. The Everything about it. No offense people as I am Stephen King's huge fan.
Rating:
Summary: "The Langoliers"
Review: Stephen King's books are pretty much always better than some of his movies. But the Langoliers was pretty great if I do say so myself. It has Bronson Pinchot (Balki, from Perfect Strangers, Lois and Clark, and Step By Step) as an evil bad guy Craig Toomy, aside from his usual good guy rolls. Also staring Patricia Wetting (Thirty Something) as a school teacher named Laurel Stevenson, and Dean Stockwell (Quantum Leap). The plot line was a bit slow in most places but it really picked up at the end. Diana the blind girl played by Kate Maberly pretty much steels some scenes. It comes together nicely and interestingly tells the story of Time Travel and the little creatures called "The Langoliers" that are I guess a source of the Time Travel. It's always fun in Stephen King movies to pick him out, but he's pretty recognizable in this film. All in all this is one of my favorite made for TV movies that came out and I would highly recommend this movie.
Rating: 
Summary: All Hail The King of Horror
Review: I am a big Stephen King fan, and I have to say that I enjoyed The Langoliers very much. Based on the novella in Stephen King's book Four Past Midnight, The Langoliers is the tale of 9 people on a red-eye flight coming from LA who awaken to find themselves all alone on the plane--everybody, including the flight crew, having disappeared when the plane flew into a mysterious "time rip" that was directly in their path. Luckily for the others, one of the passengers happens to be Captain Brian Engle, a pilot dead-heading home after receiving the news that his ex-wife was killed in a fire. When Capt. Engle takes over the controls of the plane and diverts their flight to Bangor, Maine, that's when the fun and suspense begins. Although I have to agree that the special effects were rather obvious and cheesy, I felt that the story and acting more than made up for it. David Morse was great as Capt. Engle, the pilot who finds himself in a situation that he's never faced before. I loved Mark Lindsay Chapman as Nick Hopewell, the British government "assassin" who suddenly finds himself re-examining his life as the langoliers come after him and his compatriots aboard the plane. It was very nice to see The Secret Garden's Kate Maberly as Dinah, the young blind girl with a power that may help save the others from what's coming. Patricia Wettig handled herself quite well as Laurel, the schoolteacher that takes Dinah under her charge, and who Nick finds himself falling for. Quantum Leap's Dean Stockwell was wonderful as Bob Jenkins, the mystery writer who seems to be the voice of reason among all the others. I had a few concerns at first about Bronson Pinchot as Craig Toomey--my first thought when I saw him was OMG, Balki from Perfect Strangers is playing a crazy guy--but as the story went on I felt that he did quite a good job with his part. In the end, I thought that The Langoliers was an excellent piece of storytelling, even with the cheesy F/X, and one of Stephen King's best miniseries to date. It's a keeper, folks.
Rating:
Summary: This Terrific Premise that become a Camp Classic.
Review: A Jet leaves to fly from Los Angeles to Boston on a Red-Eye flight. A Group of Passengers (Patricia Weltig, Mark Lindsay Champman, Kate Maberly, Bronson Pinchot, Dean Stockwell, Baxter Harns, Kimber Riddle, Christopher Collet & Frankie Faison) and a Pilot (David Morse) have been sleeping in the Jet and then Waking up and they discovers that the another Passengers and Pilot have simply Vanished and the Jet is on Auto-Pilot. But once they manage to land the Plane in the State of Maine. The Situation didn`t improve with nobody around the Airport & It seems, once they are on the ground, it seems the time has stopped and they feel a dread evil presence. Which is headed straight to them, a feel on a never-ending nightmare on their destruction. Which is going to be their final destination for the Survivors. Directed by Tom Holland (Child`s Play, Fatal Beauty, Fright Night) made a fascinating but stupid (if long) adapation of Stephen King`s Novel (From the Novella-Four Past Midnight). But the film eded up being a Unintentionaly Hilarious with some silly dialogue and the most awful Computer Generated Imagery (CGI), you will ever see. Despite a Good Cast (Especially Pinchot offers a Change of Pace role) and a unique story. Morse, who later appears in Two Stephen King`s adapations:The Excellent-The Green Mile and the Underrated-Hearts of Atlantis. Holland, who later directed-Stephen King`s Underrated-Thinner. Which Thinner was writting under King`s Pseudonym, which the name is Richard Bachman. Even King`s appears in a Cameo in this miniseries. This adapations turns into a Watchable Campy film that could`ve been a Richer more Satisfying film with a Larger Budget for the Visual Effects!. Teleplay by the Director. Grade:B+.
Rating:
Summary: Langoliers is very interesting.
Review: Never underestimate Kings ability to write a great story!!! With the exception of a couple. But anyways this storyline and the concept of langoliers was somthing I'd never seen before. At first I didn't want to watch it,but then I found myself wanting to watch more of it!!! Despite how long this movie is,it passes by incredibally fast. Some movies are hard to bear watching for nearly 4hrs. But not this one. Don't let the time legnth make you turn this down. You might not enjoy it at all,but you're prolly more likely to love it then hate it.Its very interesting about the a plane full of passengers in which 10 people fall asleep and when they wake up they have fallen in to a time warp. Despite no great special effects(WHICH I DO NOT CARE ABOUT ANYWAYS)this movie was creepy in a sense. Esp. Bronsen Pinchot(the actors name in which I forgot his characters name). I guess I to underestimated his acting abilities. Haunted by his dead fathers voice he is always scared basiclly,talking about the langoliers,peeling magazines or news papers,and other things. I don't know how helpfull this reviews been and I'm sorry if it wasn't helpfull at all. Anyways My favorite character is the blind girl. Not sure why,but she is very bright and cunning. Well goodbye!!! God Bless ~Amy
Rating:
Summary: Worst airline movie ever?
Review: Sure am glad I wasted hours of my life to find out the Langoliers were a bunch of evil bowling balls.
Rating:
Summary: STEPHEN.... KING .... THE GENIUS OF THE STRANGE
Review: This movie is a very good discovery witch has "provide you are reciptives" SCIENTIFICS REFERENCES OF TEMPORAL QUANTUM PHYSICAL because what's accurately the TIME FACTOR ? The material SUBSTANCE ? WHAT ARE EXACTLY THE DIFFERENTS POSSIBILITY INHERENTS AS THAT ? STEPHEN KING who was writting this book whitch has inspired this movie is compulsory to know these NOTIONS .... MATHEMATICALS and with its dreams witch are almost communicables the scepticism of any pepople who look this splendid MOVIE disappear inevitably !!! THIS MAN IS REALY A GENIUS AND OF COURSE THE MOVIE IS BECOMING WITH HIM A MASTERPIECE ! A airpline witch never find the ground for crash-land, the odour witch is not there in this atmosphere every OFthese THINGS CREATED THROUGHT THE TERRIBLE YOUTHFULNESS OF A POOR MAN TOOMY !!! INNOVATOR STEPHEN KING... REALY with many thrillers, actions, emotions, some science, very much compatibility with the reality in despite of slows averages !
Rating:
Summary: The Master of Horror returns
Review: I was happy to see that Stephen King had made another Suspensful, yet successful movie from his book.
The Langoliers is a movie of 10 surviving passengers aboard flight 29, and when they awake to no one on the plane and to no one on the ground, they know something wrong happened, very wrong. It seems they have traveled to the past through a time rip that was mistaken to be the nothern lights. A man aboard the plane named Craig Toomey, somehow knows what the things called the Langoliers are after being tormented by his father all his life with them. After Realizing that the Langoliers are coming, the remaining passengers leave and fly back through the rip. It turns out that Mr. Toomey dosen't know half of what The Langoliers are. It turns out that the past can be as little as a second, and once that second is used the present moves forward along with all living, and working things; The Langoliers job is to clean up after time, by eating the past.
Great acting and so-so effects, make this movie an even greater title for your collection.
|
