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Nicely Done...
The standout of King's Four Past Midnight was the Twilight Zone-esque, The Langoliers, a very good entry into the time-twister category in an otherwise uneven collection of four King novellas. Given the mixed bag of Steven King adapatations, I had low expectations for this 1995 TV movie. Turned out to be a pleasant surprise... <
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>- Direction: Nice job with pacing. Things move along briskly, and the three hours run time is over before you know it. <
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>- Script: The editing of the source material is marginal and sensible; it is very faithful to the original story. <
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>- Casting: Casting is damned near perfect except perhaps for the Dinah character who is somewhat grating but not disasterously so. The actors are pretty close to how I envisioned them. <
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>- Acting: Nice job by the cast. Bronson Pinchot as Toomey is especially good along with Mark Lindsay Chapman as Nick. <
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>- Special Effects: Better than expected for 1995 TV movie CGI effects. Sure, they're cartoony but given what the script called for them to execute on a TV movie budget using CGI, which was cutting edge at the time, they're fine. Do they compare with modern 100 million plus budget theatrical film effects from a decade later? No. But is this a realistic expectation? Again, no. <
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>Not the worst King adaptation I've seen - not by a long stretch. To the contrary, this is one of the more credible TV movie stabs at science fiction. It's an entertaining, competently executed, and faithful adaptation of a very good short story by Steven King that's well worth a look.

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I would like to see this gven an improved release.
If this were released on a better disk with better special effects, this would very much be worth the price. Other than that, it is an okay buy, but it needs much improvement.

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Stephen King, prognosticator
Extremely interesting tale which ultimately suggests an explanation as to why time travel to the past will never be realized. When a small group of airline travelers awaken to find their jetliner 40,000 feet in the air without a pilot and otherwise empty except for themselves, they come to the realization that they slipped a few minutes into the past. Now they have to find their way back to the present, for they have discovered the terrible truth of what really happens to the present when it becomes the past. Not the typical Stephen King story. But some interesting theory presented in the story line, extremely riveting with good role-playing by a diverse cast. Great entertainment.