tomazsteh
I read the short story by Stephen King and saw the movie straight away for comparison. The movie does a great job of extending the plot of the short story and making it more intense and giving it depth. The ending is different in the movie although there are some interesting parallels with the book. It definitely deserves a much higher rating and that is the reason for this review.
magdi-dawood
Well well well,for me this is one of the best philosophical stories I have watched on the screen, besides best performance for John Cusack in his whole history, I saw it as a person who entered the life we know, suffering, struggling, living in agony with few moments of joy and happiness, I changed see even when he think he is safe and OK and finds out he is not, he is still living his true life, every pain you can imagine is in this movie, prisoner, phobias, loss, isolation, death, and weaknesses, I know may be I can not explain what I c as good as u can figure it out when u watch the movie from this perspective, All respect to everyone involved in that movie, I gave it 9 just because the sound tracks could be better
It's not an horror movie, it's something else from Stephen kings
DansHauntedHouseful
It has the flair of a psychedelic trip; albeit a trip or horrors – a very bad trip. But luckily for us the viewers, we are grounded in reality on the other side of the screen. Any "trippy" experience to be had is thankfully vicarious. But I'll admit that I found myself a bit exhausted by the film's end.I really liked this movie. It is a tense film with psychological drama mixed in with the horror. John Cusack is excellent. And Samuel L Jackson, though his screen time is limited, brings a welcoming performance. This movie is one of my favorites. See it! For a more in depth review of this film, please visit my website TheBooksofDaniel. The link is in my IMDb profile.
851222
Greetings from Lithuania.I loved "1408" (2007) for both viewing i have had of this picture. It was superbly simple yet effective story, but its the writing by Matt Greenberg and superb directing by Mikael Håfström who carried this movie. Sure the performance by Samuel L. Jackson was uniformly good, but it was of course John Cusack's vehicle to say the least - he is just superb in this role. I loved how they made a very involving set up and didn't let it go until the very end, which maybe could have been a bit better, stick more closely to the movie we saw before. Nevertheless, "1408" is a very involving and a truly scary movie, surely not to be missed by the fans (and not only by them) of the genre. Great horror flick.
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