Good start, but then it gets ruined

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

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I've now watched the first three episodes of this TV series based on the Christopher Walken 1993 movie adapted from Stephen King's novel. Let me start by saying I really enjoyed the original movie, a dark fantasy involving a search for a serial killer. Although one of the episodes here also involves a serial killer, the series would lose credibility if every week, the hero got to solve another baffling murder, so that I anticipate a mix of crime and human interest stories from here on.There'll no doubt be an eternal triangle played out, among Johnny, his ex-fiancé and her new man, who just happens to be the town's head of police, not to mention his son, unborn at the time of his accident, now "adopted" by his new dad. I'll be less interested in this rather contrived arrangement than the prospect of some insightful, innovative stories which I hope will emerge.Anthony Michael Hall can't compare to the edginess of wired old Chris Walken and you can see the target audience of middle-teens in Johnny's handsome wholesomeness, ditto his ex girlfriend. On the periphery there's a good-looking but predatory female reporter and Johnny's guardian, a minister of the church who has likely diddled Johnny's late lamented mother of her fortune for his own ends. Plenty of clichéd character's and situations then to antciate and I can only hope the material makes more of Johnny's gift than these rather obvious plot-devices.The playing is routine TV-by-numbers and the special effects okay. I'll keep watching but feel the series needs to inject some dramatic tension and some genuine thrills and excitement to really garner my vote.

So this is based on Stephen Kings novel "The Dead Zone"? Not so much, apart from that the character names are the same or similar. It's about a guy that falls into a coma after a traffic accident and wakes up 6 years later with weird powers. He also tries to take down a politician named Stillson. End of similarity.The problem with this series is that it lacks coherence and continuity. At the end of series 6 you know as little about the characters as you did at the end of series 1 - which shows one of the monumental failings of the series. You simply don't care about the characters. That it lived for 6 (short) seasons is actually a miracle in itself. Sure, some episodes are actually pretty fun - but once you turn it off - ... poof staying power gone.The second ginormous problem is continuity. There is no thread the episodes follow. The main plot should have been Johnny Smiths interaction with Stillson, at least for a season or two. Instead, the writers pile on disconnected self-contained episodes, one after another - with a scattered few episodes related to Stillson in between as an excuse for calling it based on S.Ks novel. It's not. At all. And when they do have a thread running through a couple of episodes (like the end of season 5 or Stillsons wedding) they rapidly move on to the self-contained episodes again or kill off all the characters (as in season 6). It's as if the producers didn't know what they wanted to do with the series in the first place.The acting finally, isn't all that impressive either. At times it honestly pretty awful compared to other TV series I've been following, while plot quality varies a bit (there are the downright silly plots) but generally it's quite high standard, although a bit repetitive - probably due to the continuity issue.All in all, it's completely forgettable. Good enough for a few hours entertainment, but nothing you care much about after you've seen it.

The series stars its regulars Anthony Michael Hall, Nicole de Boer, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, David Ogden Stiers, and Kristen Dalton. I love it when the beautiful Sarah Wynter makes an appearance. I really liked the pilot film and I have really grown to love the series! I can't say that I am familiar with any of these people but I will say that everyone is very good. Hall makes the whole thing so great. He is really a gifted actor. He makes Johnny Smith have such a great personality and a great guy. Its a weird thing but he kind of reminds of one of My favorite wrestlers the late great Curt 'Mr. Perfect' Henning. Nicole de Boer is a fine actress. Bruno is very good and like hall he reminds Me of another wrestler and shooter fighter and that is Ken Shamrock. Adams is very good and hilarious. Stiers is a very talented veteran actor and he reminds Me movie composer John Williams. Dalton is a good actress too. The music is very good. I love the special effects and how everything stops! If you love Stephen King and really entertaining stuff then I strongly recommend that you see this series today! Movie Nuttball's NOTE: The pilot movie is located on the first disc of the Dead Zone: The Complete First Seaon DVD Set. It does however have its own release on VHS and DVD but I recommend that you pick up the DVD set instead of the single because of the on going excellent series! Stop by Amazon.com buy the Complete First, Second, and Third Seasons on DVD today! You wont be disappointed!

The first two seasons of "The Dead Zone" was a delight too watch.Great acting and some spot-on writing makes this interesting with both suspense and comedy. I hope the show doesn´t slip during it´s the 3rd season, judging from the first episode there is no signs of that happening. This is the best American Sci/Fi I have seen in a long time (including the overrated "X-Files"). This is, in fact, the best since the great show "American Gothic" unforgivably was cancelled after just one season. Let´s hope that this show has a few good years in it yet.