Review – The Langoliers

All told, I’ll bet there’s around 60 minutes’ worth of solid plot, character and special effects to be found here. Unfortunately, for reasons most likely economic in nature, this production drags out for a full four hours (once the copious commercial interruptions are added in). The series is nearly three quarters done before the title monsters even make an appearance, and when they do show up they look an awful lot like oil drill bits stuck into giant, flying prunes. They stay on screen for five or ten minutes, and then the show drags on for another hour. Minus around half the characters and their various, meandering, distracting subplots, this tale of an airplane lost outside the stream of time and menaced by creatures who devour reality might have been a downright scary piece of media. As it is, however, it’s just hard not to lose interest after awhile. See if desperate