The Dead Zone | Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams | A Quirky Part for an Actor Who Is Willing to...

The Dead Zone | Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams | I forgot to mention....

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The Dead Zone

	The Dead Zone Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams Paramount, 2000 average customer review:based on 110 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Dead Zone is based on a novel by Stephen King, directed by David Cronenberg (Scanners, The Fly) and produced by Debra Hill (Halloween, The Fog). Such a trio of horror vets would be expected to come up with an evening of shocks and gore, but The Dead Zone is a surprise. While it has great atmospheric eeriness and undeniably scary moments, The Dead Zone is at heart a sensitive and thoughtful portrayal of main character Johnny Smith's dilemma. Christopher Walken, king of the vaguely creepy, plays Smith, a man who awakens from a five-year coma with the very mixed blessing of second sight. At the mere touch of a hand, Smith is unwillingly launched into scenes of past and future terror. (Director Cronenberg is said to have fired blanks from a .357 Magnum just out of camera range to keep Walken's flinching spontaneous.) The Dead Zone wisely takes its time telling the story, and thus allows for some great performances. Walken gives a rich portrayal of the conflicted Smith, and Colleen Dewhurst and Tom Skerritt both do welcome turns in smaller roles. The most fun of all, though, is clearly being had by Martin Sheen, who gives a spirited performance as a complete sleazebag. --Ali Davis

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A Quirky Part for an Actor Who Is Willing to Gamble

Christopher Walken has made a career out of taking those oddball, quirky, edgy roles. Never satisfied with the easy path, he, like Harvey Keitel, takes the tricky, adventurous over the safe and sometimes more profitable parts. He often plays the role of a strange, eerie, kind of nutcase character. Always he seems to be stretching his acting muscles and evolving as an actor.
The book is part of the prolific Stephen King's franchise. In "The Dead Zone," The lead character, Walken as Johnny, spends five years in a coma, and comes out of it with psychic powers. Because he can see into the past and future, and see events taking place elsewhere in the present, he is able to save lives, snare a serial killer, smoke our evildoers, and prevent catastrophes. He learns that he can not only foretell the future but change it. Almost like a comic book super hero.
Herbert Lom is very good as Johnny's doctor. Walken gives an intense performance. Somehow the movie has a low budget feel to it, or could it be downscale production values? The movie is not from one of King's horror books and benefits from this fact. It deals not so much with the supernatural but the paranormal powers of a sad, believable, realistic person. It's a movie to while away some time with. There is nothing brain-wrenching here.
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I forgot to mention....

This is William E. O'Bryant once again. I wanted to add some other comments about this film, but Amazon only allows one comment per customer. Anyway, this is what I wanted to add:

I also wanted to say that this movie is in essence, about God. It's about Him seeing all, and knowing all. The past, present, and future. It's about Him choosing a man in the right position and then giving him the power of second sight, to not only save the world, but to also help those around him in the process. In the end, this story is about the Love of God, and the hand that He Himself must put in, in order to save humanity from itself. As far as I'm concerned, this film is my favorite out of the 900 odd DVD's that I currently own. My only wish is to go back in time and to be on the crew of this film. I would have loved to help in any way that I could in its creation. Thank you Stephen, for this vision. It is much appreciated.

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The dead zone is a classic

This movie is a great story of tragedy. A man with foresight helps people, many of whom do not appreciate it and often to his own detriment both physicaly and mentaly. In the end he is faced with a grave vision of the future, a hard choice of what to do and how much will he sacrifice.
This part was made for Christopher Walken.
This is not a horror movie it is more sci-fi drama.

One of the best movies in the world.

I love everything about this film. The music....the story....the setting and environment....it's just superb. I don't know what it is about this movie, but whenever I watch it I find myself both enraptured, and teary-eyed at the same time. I can only imagine what it would be like to be in the same kind of situation. To lose so much in your life due to a freak accident, but in return gain the power of second sight, and then later after you wake up from your coma, trying to get back the life you lost. This film is absolutely masterful. The moment it came out on DVD, you can bet I was one of the first to buy it. Get it, watch it, and see what I mean.

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THE DEAD ZONE

A special collector's edition, The Dead Zone is well worth purchasing. Based on one of Stephen King's earlier novels, it is excitingly fast-paced and entertaining. Christopher Walken is outstanding in the starring role of the psychic who has a gift he would not have asked for, one that in the end proves life-saving on a grand scale. Buy the movie! You won't be sorry.

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