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Sadly Over-hyped

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Open to close the movie is 103 min. long. We'll say 93 min. of actual movie. It is 92 min. of negativity and 1 min. of positivity....but that 92 min. of negativity makes that 1 min. of positivity worth it.

Just like Death Note, Gerald's Game is a film that couldn't be released in theaters because it takes a story that just doesn't fit a one-off feature film format. Gerald's Game does have good moments, but the ending is where the film becomes an exposition-ridden slog that becomes the archetypal cliche-ridden Stephen King fest (the IT-mini-series, Children of the Corn, The Lawnmower Man and so on) we've seen again and again.Child abuse? Check. Questionable husband? Check. Tormented woman whose backstory and revelation is shoehorned into the ending of the story? Check. Ominous monster whom we don't know anything about (basically a psychological IT)? Double-check.Bottom-line, I don't think this comes even close to 2017's other Stephen King adaptation: IT. Gerald's Game squanders its potential and the ending's dependence on easily resolving childhood trauma with some ominous being just seemed... unbelievably hokey to me. Trauma's never that easy to get over; it requires something way less binary and obvious.This straight-to-web film gets 2.5/5 stars.

Jessie and Gerald go to their lakehouse for a little end-of-season R&R which, hopefully, might help out their ailing marriage. Gerald interprets this as offering the opportunity to try out a little experimental bondage, and handcuffs Jessie to the bedhead. This is not to Jessie's liking but before Gerald can uncuff her, he suffers a fatal heart attack. Jessie is cuffed to the bed in a deserted cabin. Deserted, that is, apart from the dog who is eating her husband's corpse. Oh, and the serial killer on the loose.The book, like Misery, takes part largely within the protagonist's head. This presents some problems in terms of adaptation: internal monologues are inherently uncinematic. But Gerald - or, rather, Jessie's personification of him - is given a solid role to play here, because Jessie is not just trapped by her cuffs. We learn that her past, including Gerald, but going back to her childhood also, have trapped her just as effectively as the ill-judged bondage game.And kudos to this film for including the eclipse sequence including the very detailed reference to events in King's linked novel Dolores Claiborne. This sequence is atmospheric, evocative, and necessary: the manipulative emotional blackmail of Jessie's father was, for me, the most horrifying element of a story which otherwise traded on Jessie's claustrophobic powerlessness.There is a little gore and some extremely offensive language, all of which is entirely appropriate. And for a story which is essentially a two-hander, but Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood are first rate.This is one of the better King adaptations.

This movie has quiet a few good moments but couple of bad ones too. Couldve easily gave it a higher rating.The make up team did an amazing job with the special fx. One of the best ive seen in a while. It builds up pretty well and keeps you curious all the way till the end. However, i cant say i loved the ending. It was very unclear how the director wanted the finish the movie. It was almost as if they couldnt decide and just threw things at you.Husband cuffs his wife to bed to spice up their sex life but then dies all of a sudden. Shes stuck on the bed in a remote house with no help. She slowly goes crazy while trying to stay alive.