The greatest movie ever made..!

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

"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.

This is based on a science fiction novel by the acclaimed author Stephen King. It is said to follow the book closely, and as science fiction goes it is very original and rather good. This is a film with no villains unless you count the berserk bond broker who stabbed two people killing both of them, but the poor guy was haunted by the ghost of his malevolent father, considering that and all the circumstances, few courts would not entertain an insanity plea.This is also a film – in reality a TV mini-series - that was made on a relatively modest budget, taking place mostly aboard an aircraft and at a deserted airport. Ten people aboard a night plane close their eyes, and when they wake up they are the only ones there. Conveniently their number includes a pilot, a British agent, an author who would give Stephen King a run for his money, and a blind girl who has ESP or something akin.They break into the empty cockpit – something that in the post-9/11 world would be no easy matter - and the pilot manages to land at Bangor, Maine. But are they in Bangor, Maine, or a parallel dimension, or is something else going on? And what are the Langoliers?If you find out for yourself, you won't be disappointed.

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.

Some people says that acting and FX are the main purpose in creating a good movie, but here, it was proved wrong. I have to admit that this movie are full of characters with bad acting, i mean all of them (except for Bronson Pinchot who gave an excellent performance as mad guy Mr Craig Toomey). But the worst goes to the little girl, the blind little girl who does not have any emotional feelings and not really up to the standard to what audience always wanted. And the FX is quite poor and cheesy, seems to be cartoons. It really looks funny to me! I wish it could be better in order to turn this into a great movie.But, none of these really affect the greatness of The Langoliers. The main purpose of why this movie is created is because of the storyline, the story written by the master of horror, Stephen King. And, the story are almost exactly accurate to the short story in 4 Past Midnight. The way the story tell us is very entertaining, until I didn't really focus myself on the acting and the FX. It is the story which keep me thinking and wait for what is going to happen at the end of the story. Even though the movie is 3 hours long, but it doesn't make me feel boring because the suspend is there. I'm gonna watch this movie again for the 10th times this afternoon :) forget about the acting and the FX, concentrate on the storyline! excellent (10/10 stars)