The Worst Film Ever

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This was a very very long entertaining film that really could have been cut in half before it started to become one big boring film. Stephen Baldwin,(Marty Stillwater/Alfie) played two characters in this film and gave a great performance fighting against himself and having to prove himself to his own family. Julie Warner, (Paige Stillwater) gave a great supporting role as his wife who had two girls, Caley Cuoco,(Charlotte Stillwater) and Brittney Lee Harvey (Emily). Brittney Lee Harvey is a very young girl and gave a simply great performance as the younger sister. Caley Cuoco is another actress who gave a great supporting role and a appeared on a great TV Show with the late John Ritter. Nice Sci-Fi film with lots of action but entirely too long for me.

For this should be the title for this bad made for TV movie adapted from a novel by Dean Koontz. Stephen Baldwin stars along with Thomas Hayden Church, both gentlemen of whose work I like. But this is not one of them. I was embarrassed for them both to appear in this loser. First of all it just dragged on and on and on. Four hours to be exact plus commercials. Awful. To put these two good actors through the pace of this was cruel. Didn't they know they were doing a bad film? Then add the distinguished James Coburn and the likes of Julie Warner and that cinched it for me. All of the actors have great bodies of work in the career. Why this one? It seemed that both Baldwin characters were as stupid and vacant as the other. There was no difference. And what's with the blonde hair? Don't recall Baldwin ever being a blonde. For effect? There wasn't an ounce of compassion in any of the characters. Possibly Warner at times, but then she was confused as we all were as to who was who. Come on, a wife can tell her husband from a phony. No sympathy there. All the actors had one expression on their faces. Confusion. I wonder did they know what was happening? Oh, well I suppose I have to give this a 2 star just in respect of the work I know the cast can really do with good scripts and good direction.

I have not read the book that this is about, but it seems to follow a similar plot to other Koontz books.Overall I considered this a dandy movie which was much better than most other Koontz adaptations. The acting was surprisingly good with no one detracting from the film and a few quite excellent performances as well as the sexy Julie Warner who did an excellent job.My only real complaint is that the big explanation/twist/secret is given away at the beginning of the movie. This was also a big disappointment in Hideaways and it seems that Koontz screenplays have to be this way. Besides giving everything (the whole mystery) away at the start, this was a fun action/suspense movie that I quite enjoyed. It won't knock your socks off, but is certainly worth the time to view it.

As far as Dean Koontz films go, the adaptations to his works usually leave me feeling ... robbed of a good experience. His novels are excellent, but the adaptations are horrid. With "Phantoms," some actual money was spent, and Dean R. Koontz himself write the screenplay, and was one of the producers. This made for the best Koontz movie to date. This time, Mr. Koontz is a co-executive producer, and apparently retained a bit of control over this production by doing so, because this is even better than "Phantoms."If this keeps up, his work may actually one day receive the attention and financial backing it deserves.That having been said, this is a fun movie. The youngest Baldwin not withstanding, the acting performances (especially those of the two girls featured as Baldwin's daughters) were extremely good, the direction this time was better than decent, and the story was not too badly ripped.I was actually quite surprised with the raised level of quality to this production. I was also surprised to find that I highly enjoyed this film; it was fun, quirky, and well executed. I found this movie was actually quite well done. Yes, of course, it could have been better, but this could possibly be the turn around for Koontz and his work.At least, I hope so.On the "B" scale, this movie rates an 8.8/10.That's a 7.2/10 on the "A" scale from...the Fiend :.