Stephen King's The Langoliers Movie Review

One of the worst Stephen King adaptations in recent memory (and there have been some bad ones). This bloated variation of Ten Little Indians finds 10 airline passengers dozing off on their L.A.-to-Boston flight and awakening to find their fellow passengers and the crew have vanished. Of course, one passenger (David Morse) is a pilot and he manages to land the plane in Bangor, Maine (where the miniseries was filmed), only to discover things on the ground are as strange as those in the air. Each of the characters has their own problems, which are slowly (painfully slowly) revealed. In a great feat of cinematic empathy, viewers, like the characters, will feel time has stopped moving as well. The final special effects of the “langoliers” (creatures that look like flying cannon-balls with piranha teeth) are embarrassing in this day. AKA: The Langoliers.

1995 (PG-13) 180m/C David Morse, Bronson Pinchot, Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, Kate Maberly, Christopher Collet, Kimber Riddle, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Frankie Faison, Baxter Harris; Cameos: Stephen King, Tom Holland; D: Tom Holland; W: Tom Holland; C: Paul Maibaum; M: Vladimir Horunzhy. VHS, LV REP