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Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

DBLurker I have never read a Stephen King novel in my life, in-fact, I recently purchased "The Stand" but have yet to read it (too many novels to go through). So I can't judge how good his literary work is and this review is not about his novels.What I CAN judge is the movies based on his work since I have seen movies based on his work since I was a kid.The only two movies which had the horror elements and creepiness, as far as I'm concerned, are The Night Flier (1997) and The Mist (2007). I like both of those, everything else has been trash. Maybe it's way too hard to convert Stephen King's horror to the big screen and it requires special people, like the directors of those two movies I like, to make it work. So yeah, coming back to the Bag of Bones (BOB). It isn't scary. AT ALL.The worst part is the acting. Pierce Brosnan, I only ever found him convincing in Tailor of Panama and James Bond. Everywhere else he seems to forget how to act and starts phoning it in. In BOB, he hilariously screams two-three times during "scary" parts and rest of the movie, just shrugs off the supernatural stuff happening around him, even laughing most of the time in supernatural scenes cause he thinks his dead wife is talking to him (dafuq?). Basically, he refuses to act like a normal human being, failing to connect with the audience.Then there's the SECOND worst part of the movie. The generic scares, the "horror" of jump "scares", which returns with vengeance since this movie fails to have anything interesting in the lore itself. I found it funny that the only horrific things happen to women in this movie and the "curse" also hurts.. women while it was supposed to punish the men. This was the dumbest plot I've seen in a horror movie.. since he last horror movie I saw and rated/reviews (see my reviews).Overall, meh. 2/10.. two points for Melissa George looking hot as usual.

SnoopyStyle Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan (Pierce Brosnan)'s wife Jo (Annabeth Gish) gets run over in the street. He finds a pregnancy test on her and assumes that she cheated on him since he's infertile. Marty (Jason Priestley) is his literary agent. He is haunted by nightmares of a girl at his summer home on Dark Score Lake, Maine. He goes to stay at the cabin in the wood which had been renovated by his wife. He saves Kyra Devore from getting run over and befriends her mother Mattie (Melissa George). Mattie is in a custody battle with her wealthy father-in-law Max Devore after she killed her husband as he tried to drown Kyra. Mike has visions of a 1930s jazz singer Sara Tidwell.Many Stephen King stories have been translated onto the screen. This is not the worst but definitely not that good. This could be a good ghost story but it needs to be compressed. Pierce Brosnan is required to fill a lot of space by himself. It does a lot of creepy but nothing actually scary.

rioplaydrum After reading several other reviewer's comments who didn't like this production at all, it became evident they were highly disappointed because the adaptation didn't follow the book very well.I didn't read the book. I guess it's good that I didn't.Pierce Brosnan gives a completely believable performance as a distraught writer dealing with the sudden death of his wife while trying to propel his stalled career. After moving into the lake house he inherited some years before, his mission quickly moves from originally trying to get his writing act together to solving the mystery of Dark Score Lake.Our protagonist experiences poltergeist events, nightmares and terrifying visions involving his dead wife's spirit and the presence of a jazz singer who was brutally murdered along with her young daughter in 1939.I found the two-part series great fun, as the 'firecracker' moments made me physically jump in my chair every time.The work is not without it's cheesy, cheap moments however. Who names a lake 'Dark Score' anyway? The automatic reference to evil was unnecessary, and the chief antagonist, Max Devore, keeps close company with an assistant who could pass for Natasha from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show.None the less, a great show to plop the kids in front of on a Halloween night.

Tommy Nicholls I dislike Pierce Brosnan as an actor, for me he just always seems so wooden, and this miniseries is the perfect example of just how wooden he can get. This isn't helped by the damn awful script/directing/whatever that made this so boring. The plot scrambles around like a someone trying to find a needle in a haystack, haphazardly going in whichever direction it chooses and not really explaining anything to the author. After the story finally decided what direction it wanted to take, the ending seemed rushed and forced. I must say though, Anika Noni Rose was actually really great in this and maybe if they got to her part of the story an hour earlier and had more of her in this then it would have been a half decent mini-series. To be honest, Stephen King fan or not, this is most certainly not worth your time.