Metacritic reviews

Garris wrote the screenplay himself and adds one significant improvement over the original short: changing the date of the story from 2001 to 1969.

Falls short of its source.

Writer-director Mick Garris has a real feeling for the horror master's melancholy worldview - love is loss - but he's too reverent toward the original story, the ending of which, both on the page and, now, on the screen, lands with an overly elegiac thud.

Imagine a feature-length version of the "Large Marge" sequence from "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and you won't be too far off, only that was scarier.

The "Bullet" is an amusement-park roller coaster, and the title is a ham-fisted metaphor for facing your fears.

Both the anticipation factor and writer-director Mick Garris' slick adaptation fail to live up to the old hype.

The movie is so glum and flat-footed there's no reason to care.

A ponderous, incoherent horror mishmash that turns King's short story into utter nonsense.