This may not be the best Stephen King movie out on video, but it sure as hell is the longest. An original teleplay mostly by the Great Man, this is, for King conoisseurs, tangentally a sequel to Firestarter, and features the Kustomary King Kameo as Stevie stretches his acting talents by playing a bus driver.
A seven-part TV series spliced together into a bladder-abusing four hour feature, this has elderly janitor Keith Szarabajka caught in one of those mysterious explosions in a top secret research facility and, after a brief spell of glowing green, starting to grow young. With a government-sanctioned psychopath on his tail, Szarabajka takes off like The Fugitive, and several hours pass with surprisingly little in the way of plot, the whole epic winding down in a particularly frustating manner with a finale that neither explains nor makes any dramatic use of the heros bizarre situation.
Draggily directed, blandly acted and without much in the way of horror, suspense or action, this is strictly for Kings biggest fans and immediate family.