Review of The Dead Zone (1983) by Jake C — 12 Sep 2017
With its expanse of detailed characters, themes of repetition and exhaustion, and overall detective structure, "The Dead Zone" is a movie yearning for the era of prestige TV. (Of course, they tried that, to uneven results-but then again, they didn't have Christopher Walken or Brooke Adams.
) The plot itself already points toward this: The narrative is legion, built around barely related smaller arcs-reuniting mother and son, stopping a murderer, murdering a Hitler-such that it is not hard to see how this would translate readily to a smaller screen over many weeks.
As to the movie itself, the sprawling plot is held together by Cronenberg's direction and Walken's performance, but the precarious tension shows through nonetheless.
This review of The Dead Zone (1983) was written by Jake C on 12 Sep 2017.
The Dead Zone has generally received positive reviews.
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