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 Rated 5 out of 5!
The divided man.
Thad Beaumont is a writer who goes public about the novels he wrote under an assumed name. Now his fictious counter part, George Stark (his Dark Half) has become a real physical person, and Stark is rather upset that he’’s been killed off. And now a battle to become the dominate personality has begun. I thought this was a terrific movie. George Romero and Stephen King have been friends a long time, and Romero’’s care really comes through in the material. Timothy Hutton plays a double role as both the clumsy Thad and the ruthless Stark, and he dose a wonderful job, he was very underrated by the critics. Michael Rooker’’s Sheriff Pangborn was a nice touch, a good, smart cop who’’s sympathetic to Thad’’s problem, at least as much as his rational mind will let him be. All the other characters and actors do a good job. The best is Thad’’s fellow professor, the least being Thad’’s wife. The action is rough and mean spirited, I loved it. The gore is actually pretty mnimal, but what’’s there is impressive. I recoment it whole heartedly. Rated 3 out of 5
Hutton’’s great
Hutton is extremely good in two roles, playing Thad and his evil persona that turned into human form. somewhat of a slow pace, which lags this down a bit, but then the finale when evil Hutton gets ripped apart by all those sparrows that enter into the place is just awesome. there’’s a lot of evilness to the way Hutton puts it into his character and you can see that when he slices the victims up.- Rated 5 out of 5!
Great, spooky entertainment!
THE DARK HALF continues to be the most underrated of the King films. It is complete, intelligent, and quite scary. Timothy Hutton gives a tour de force (dual) performance as Thad Beaumont/George Stark that should have been nominated for an Oscar. Many say his performance is over the top. I find it to be, on one side, subtle and effective, the other side, fun and fiendish. Amy Madigan and Mickey Rooker add great support to this clever tale. I can’’t wait to read the book! This film is great, delicious, diabolical fun and startlingly satisfying.
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