The Dead Zone | | Cast : | Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams | | Director : | David Cronenberg | | Studio : | Paramount Studio | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | October 21, 1983 | | DVD Released Date : | August 19, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 28, 2005 | | Summary | "The ice is gonna break!!!" | Content
 | Outstanding movie! The absolute best of all Stephen King storys put to film. Christopher Walken takes you through a wide range of emotions as a reluctant psychic. The key to this film is the wonderful acting by all the players. Brooke Adams as the ex-girlfriend exudes the emotion of a woman with a confused heart in a way rarely seen on screen. The scene at the gazebo where Johnny Smith(Walken)might see the killer with his psychic abilities is astounding. The movie flows smoothly and gives you a clear understanding of how this type of psychic power affects moods, emotions and lives. Although not a big role, Martin Sheen as the sociopathic political wannabe is hands down his finest charactor. The saviour-like ending that precipitates world history is brilliant and mind blowing. Movies combining sci-fi and heart felt drama are hard to come by. This one has it all. Keep it in your DVD library. The dvd picture is decent but the sound could use improvement. A special edition containing the original movie poster artwork and many extras is greatly needed. You will enjoy it. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 23, 2005 | | Summary | Christopher Walken Makes This Movie GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Content
| There are plenty of good actors in this great King adaption but Walken is the reason I love it. Brooke Adams is another good reason to watch this movie. One of the FEW great Stephen King adaptions |
| Rating | | | Date | July 09, 2005 | | Summary | Stephen King's "The Dead Zone" | Content
| School teacher Johnny Smith is involved in a horrible accident. When he awakens from a five year coma, he finds out that he can see a person's future just by making physical contact with them. When the local cops find out about Johnny's new powers, they ask him to volunteer in helping in a murder case. This leads Johnny into more trouble than he wanted. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 19, 2005 | | Summary | If you can see what he sees | Content
| then you know whats comming about years before it happens, or he can see your past like a firework in the dark skies. This along with the shining are one of the few good Stephen king Novels to come to life in a great way.
Johnny Smith(Christopher Walken) woke up out of a five year sleep. He has his friends and a good doctor, Dr. Sam Weizak(Herbert Lom) in his corner. But when he grips the hand of a nurse, he sees what she needs to know, that her daughter is stuck in a burning house. It all ends well, but Johnny has just woke up from a five year nightmare right into one, where he wishes he was rght back in that coma. With his girl, and job gone, his legs nearly rendered usless, headaches getting worse, body getting weaker, and his only positive is to see horryfying truths, it seems as tho his life is going into a downward spiral.
This movie does a excellent job of keeping in suspence and mystery to keep your eyes glued to the very end. Since the suspence is over with after a first viewing, I find it hard to watch a suspence movie over again, unless it's like total recall where action is blazing, so I won't get board. But I watch it sometimes every now and then.
The Dead Zone is an excellent movie that provides great entertainment as a suspence movie. Anyone who is a fan of Stephen King, suspence movies, or Christopher walken should definitly check this movie out.
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| Rating | | | Date | June 19, 2005 | | Summary | Superb King Adaptation | Content
| During the time when filmmakers were completely embarassing King by making utterly low-quality films out of his stories (Children of the Corn, etc.), David Cronenberg and Jeffrey Boam teamed together to write and direct a solid, engrossing adaptation of king's 1979 novel. Christopher Walken is just fine here as a school teacher who gets thrown into a terrible car accident, by some unlucky fate, and falls into a coma for 5 years. When he wakes up, he has lost everything he once had, but has gained something. The power of second sight is what he gains, ultimately leading to a fatal conclusion. THE DEAD ZONE is the sort of movie that will keep you glued to the screen, one of the many reasons being for Walken's outstanding performance. |
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