the leading man is my tpye

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

"The Langoliers" was a TV mini-series/ movie that left me scratching my head. It starts out OK and ends OK but the middle part is more than a little weird.The story starts out like an episode of Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" where ten passengers on a cross country flight wake up and discover that the other passengers and crew have disappeared. They then try to determine what has happened. Among the befuddled passengers are airline pilot Brian Engle (David Morse), British hit man Nick Hopwell (Mark Lindsay Chapman), an over the top business executive Craig Toomey (Bronson Pinchot), a school teacher Laurel Stevenson (Patricia Wittig), a young blind girl Dinah Bellman (Kate Maberly), a mystery writer Bob Jenkins (Dean Stockwell) and Don Gaffney (Frankie Falson) and Harlan (Tom Holland) .It's rather convenient that there was an airline pilot among the survivors to take control of the plane. But...he can't contact anyone on the ground and is left to his own devices. He manages to divert the aircraft to Bangor, Maine (hey this IS a Stephen King story after all) where they land.They disembark and discover that there are no people about and that the air is dead, there are no echoes, the food tastes rotten and so on. So far so good. But..,.this is where it really gets weird. Dinah detects a noise of an approaching force coming to kill the survivors. Bob Jenkins also feels something. Then they are attacked by the Langoliers coming from God knows where, chomping up everything in sight...a sort of Pac Man with teeth.The group except for one member escape to the plane and barely take off in time before the monsters can get them. Engle and Nick surmise that they must have crossed through some sort of time warp and entered an alternate existence. They then decide to seek out the portal and...The performances are generally good considering the movie's premise. Morse and Chapman lead the way and dominate the story. Bronson Pinchot's character is way over the top. The flashback sequences with his father John Griesemor) weird as they are, show insight into Pinchot's mental state. Dean Stockwell's character is obviously meant to be Stephen King who incidently has a cameo in the story.

Well, it did read better on paper than it looked on TV...But I did not think it was "the worst movie ever made", like some of the reviews I've read claimed. Yes, it was a bit too long. Yes, the acting was sub-par. Yes, the dialogue was utterly ridiculous. Yes, the appearance of the creatures was a bit disappointing.But it is still a good movie overall. One thing going for it: it was very, very suspenseful -- something most modern movies lack, which made me really appreciate this one. The CGI was pretty tacky and exceptionally primitive -- even if you take into consideration the fact that it's a relatively old movie. I've seen some 70s movies with better special effects. I found the characters to be quite well-written, and not too cheesy or stereotypical -- another thing that can't be said for most modern movies. Character development was sufficient, and they were interesting enough, but, like I said, the acting was not very good -- the little girl and the British guy were particularly unconvincing. When the infamous langoliers finally arrive, you can't help but feel a bit disappointed, though. I don't know what I was expecting to see, but something better (more interesting? more convincing?) than this, I suppose. Anyway, despite all of that, I did like the movie and would watch it again. If you're a fan of glossy, fast-paced SCI-FI thrillers, I don't think you'll be particularly impressed with The Langoriers, but I'm not a fan of generic Hollywood action flicks, so I was able to enjoy it.

I really liked this movie a lot. The story it's based on is excellent. While I enjoyed reading the story more, this movie is a very good adaptation of it. I've read some reviews where people don't like the acting. I think the acting is excellent. They absolutely expressed the characters as written. I know it's a long movie, but it pulls you in. Maybe some people don't like movies with a whole lot of dialog and little 'action'. It's a character study as well as a creepy story. I also like the way it was shot. The close ups add to the sense of claustrophobia and dread. I know lots of people who love this movie, as well. I have no problem watching the entire thing in one sitting. I've seen it many times. Heck, I'm watching it right now. So, I'll finish this review and get back to the movie. I recommend this movie...if you have the attention span for it.

I just didn't give higher vote just because of the low budget and the poor F/X alloted to this movie. I have full understanding that this is low budget TV movie. But I could resist watching it because I had such high expectation in David Morse and Dean Stockwell. Enough with background of my watching movie.. First I didn't realize that this movie is 3 hours long... Maybe when they aired on TV they could have broken into series, but I've watched this on Netflix as one piece and it is longer movie than the lord of the rings. But as others put it, the length was due to the faithful adaptation of the original novel. No jumps or gaps in plots. Whenever there requires some explanation, Dean Stockwell slides in exuberantly and fulfills duties (he is supposed to be the avatar of S. King in the movie).I too have some pet peeve on the crappy F/X (really cheesy C.G.), but the reaction of actors actress are good enough to convince me that the monsters are there creeping in. All the settings and actings are good enough to make me get the creeps from what is going on in the movie. (FYI, I am a seasoned pseudo-professional monster/scary movie tester).When compared with "Stand", I think this is descent TV movie and I enjoyed pretty much.