Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Platypuschow Sole Survivor is the movie adaptation of a supernatural thriller book by Dean Koontz.The 3 hour epic teeters on greatness but somehow, someway misses the mark and misses it hard.It tells the story of man played by the incredibly underrated Billy Zane who lost his wife and daughter in a plane crash. Before he knows it he finds himself embroiled in a supernatural conspiracy that may explain what really happened on that fateful day.Also starring Scrubs (2001) star John C. McGinley this powerhouse of a movie is one of those that has a great concept but runs out of steam about half way through.Also starring Timecop (1994) star Gloria Reuben and former child star Jodelle Ferland I was really enjoying Sole Survivor up until the point that it became apparent it really wasn't going anywhere special.The film is worth watching for Zane & McGinley alone but the heartbreaking thing is how much potential this had. Sole Survivor had limitless potential but Koontz clearly ran out of ideas (Good ones anyway).A damn fine attempt regardless.The Good:Billy Zane and John C. McGinley are excellentGreat first halfSome nice ideasThe Bad:Plot gets a bit muddledToo much "God" speakFinale was a dudThings I Learnt From This Movie:I hate kids, also likely to be my last words

scarey101 This movie is a great piece of sci-fi and fantasy movie making. Of course you can tell that it was a novel from the word go as it is a very "out there" story. However as long as you watch this movie with and open mind and ignore the plot holes and blatant impossibilities if of this movie it is an enjoyable movie.The casting is very good (Iespecially enjoyed the man from 'scrubs' as the bad guy however over the top his character was!),Billy Zane is surprisingly good as the central role in a performance that i have never seen from him. The story is interesting and compelling and its easy to see that it would make a very good page turner as you are always kept on the edge of your seat. However out there the story may be there are important ideas about God, Life, Family and Death all contained subtly within the story (as do all great novels). This gives the movie a whole new dimension that sets it apart from any one dimensional sci-fi movies that i have seen. its a movie that leaves you thinking afterwards but also is not eclipsed by this and so leaves the movie entertaining and not too strenuous for the watcher (or reader). There are also some very creepy moments in this movie but nothing too scary so don't be put off if you are easily scared because you shouldn't be too scared by this movie. So in all watch this movie it is enjoyable for the thinking movie fans of you out there, the die hard sci-fi fans and anyone who has a few hours to spare time(OK quite a lot of spare time this is a long movie as it was originally a mini series).

cujo2 A made for TV miniseries - thank god it aired in one piece in my country- based on a typical Dean Koontz story. A typical Dean Koontz story consists most of the times of the following trademark ingredients:1.an evil villain that has access to all the nifty computer and info stuff, mostly a loner and a sociopath. 2. a secret organization that can only partly control the fore-mentioned bad guy but delivers him ( mostly its a him) resources. 3. a loner that is halfway out of the system is also very witty on the same grounds the bad guy is 4. someone in distress. 5. a little dash of the supernatural or some ET activity.Stir this up and serve chilled. In other words in my opinion most of the Koontz books are exactly the same with a few exceptions. A done by the numbers story that after reading more books becomes predictable and boring.Most of the Koontz movies I saw - not that many- suffer of course all the more from the above and so does this movie. Billy Zane is not a very gifted actor and he stumbles through the plot with mild commitment and I never felt the grief portrayed enough that a man who has lost his wife and child must feel. The muddled plot that is predictable for everyone who has read at least one fiction book in his life goes and goes and the viewer might take the opportunity to nod off so once in a while...ButThere is Mr McGinley, I liked him in on deadly ground and an ever further over the top character is brought to the screen here. He has all the great lines and he breathes more life in the material he has been given than one could expect. Lucky for the viewer he has a nice portion of screen time and it might be hard not to cheer for the bad guy in this case. He portraits a better bad guy than Mr Koontz can create in his books. He is by far the best actor in this series and from the looks of it the only one who is enjoying himself.The 7 I gave is for his performance.

mmcgown This is such a positively dreadful adaptation of the excellent novel by Dean Koontz that it's a mystery why he allowed his name on the screen. The Matheson teleplay is completely off the mark, and the John McGinley portrayal of Yates is laughable at first and then so revoltingly stupid that it destroys the continuity of the entire story. Fans of Koontz' writing should avoid wasting their time on this insipid presentation.