The Worst Film Ever

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Not perfect, and Pinchot's performance is way over the top and he looks like Star Trek's Data...But, it's still really compelling. The characters are largely exaggerated, and the pacing is leisurely, but I think the pacing actually works to give you the feeling that you are really right there with them and some crazy thing is going on. This would have worked even without some of that stuff.

I'm going to let you know right off the bat, the less you know about this TV movie, the better, you might want to stop reading this review now. I first viewed it without knowing anything about it, and I was better for it. I was 11yrs the first time shortly after it aired, and back then, the effects were considered pretty decent for a television film at the time, some of them are laughably bad now, but in a way, this adds to the entertainment value. The movie spellbound me as a child, and I have watched it upwards of 9x's since then, not once have I been bored by it, though I cannot guarantee most people will feel the same, in fact, I doubt that they will.Some of the acting in this is terrible, and no I am not talking about Bronson Pinchot, in fact, he is quite pitch perfect, over-the- top scenery chewing, scene stealer that actually elevates the film. The rest of the acting ranges from good(David Morse, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Patricia Wettig, and Dean Stockwell) to downright terrible (Kate Maberly who was previously amazing in "The Secret Garden", Kimber Riddle, Christopher Collet), and just OK (Frankie Feisman, and everyone else, save one.), and then you have Bronson Pinchot, whom is in his own universe really, literally and figuratively. The premise to this whole mini-series, and the novella(I have read it twice), is both intriguing, and silly. Certainly time travel has never quite been present this way before, and it is very intriguing to watch it unfold. See how it effects each character, and surprisingly, this adaptation is almost completely faithful, save some minor details about characters. Practically all the scenes and dialog are in tact from the novella, but what make this adaptation a miss for some people, again, really comes down to the acting. It really takes this from being a serious movie, in to the realm of pure camp by the third act, but then it ends up being quite serious again for the last 40 minutes, you could say it is wildly inconsistent in tone, but given the material, it is consistent with it. If the acting was more consistent, and better people had been cast in the roles of Bethany and Albert especially, the movie would have been so much better. Casting Bronson Pinchot was a stroke of genius, and the film is largely carried on is tiny shoulders, every scene he is in is electric, and well, crazy. The character of Craig Toomy is intriguing because, well, he is a terrible person, and not because he was abused, and in his mind, still is, no it is because he chooses to treat others based on that abuse. This is a man whom has lost all touch with reality by this point, and most people whom are abused, unfortunately, tend to lose touch with some aspect of reality, but it's not out of your control(I speak from experience), what makes this story so interesting, is no matter how campy it is, it is a very well-done analysis on abuse and what happens when you do not deal with past traumas. Like all King stories, however, Toomy is not the only one dealing with past demons, the others just do a much better job of handling them.There is endless entertainment here, from the mystery aspects, to the camp aspects, to the time travel, to the langoliers themselves(as silly as the CGI looks now, I actually felt they were, stylistically anyway, accurate to the book), it is never a dull movie, unless you are off- put by the uneven acting, and cannot accept it as a camp classic.God Bless ~Amy

Despite being low budget, this is one of the best Stephen King adaptations of all time. It doesn't win on acting, and certainly not on special effects but the intriguing story more than makes up for that. It was TV CGI from 1995 so lower your expectations for quality there. If you like hard sci-fi explored in original way, this may be the movie for you. Minor spoilers ahead. It explores an aspect of time travel I have never seen discussed before or since. It starts out on a red eye flight where most of the passengers seem to disappear with no explanation. From there the movie will keep you guessing. Back when this movie came out I was 10 and when it was finally revealed what the Langoliers are it really scared me.

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)