Worth the watch. But not for the Marvel/Star Wars crowd. As you can probably tell from the reviews, there were not enough explosions or CGI to keep most people entertained.

Gerald's Game is a wonderful film with the actual kind of terror that makes you feel like there is someone in the room with you. It has the graphic elements that disturb you, along with the cinematic elements that disturb you. It builds up using incredible directing, cinematography and acting that makes it intriguing until the end. It makes you wonder what is actually there, and what is in the character's mind. You are trying figure out if anything happened at all, or if it was imagined. You wonder if she escaped. It can only be discovered in the final scene, and even then, you must decide whether or not she mentally escaped or not.

Jessie and Gerald go to their lakehouse for a little end-of-season R&R which, hopefully, might help out their ailing marriage. Gerald interprets this as offering the opportunity to try out a little experimental bondage, and handcuffs Jessie to the bedhead. This is not to Jessie's liking but before Gerald can uncuff her, he suffers a fatal heart attack. Jessie is cuffed to the bed in a deserted cabin. Deserted, that is, apart from the dog who is eating her husband's corpse. Oh, and the serial killer on the loose.The book, like Misery, takes part largely within the protagonist's head. This presents some problems in terms of adaptation: internal monologues are inherently uncinematic. But Gerald - or, rather, Jessie's personification of him - is given a solid role to play here, because Jessie is not just trapped by her cuffs. We learn that her past, including Gerald, but going back to her childhood also, have trapped her just as effectively as the ill-judged bondage game.And kudos to this film for including the eclipse sequence including the very detailed reference to events in King's linked novel Dolores Claiborne. This sequence is atmospheric, evocative, and necessary: the manipulative emotional blackmail of Jessie's father was, for me, the most horrifying element of a story which otherwise traded on Jessie's claustrophobic powerlessness.There is a little gore and some extremely offensive language, all of which is entirely appropriate. And for a story which is essentially a two-hander, but Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood are first rate.This is one of the better King adaptations.

All you need to know about this film is basically the following: all men are evil oppressors and sexual deviants who view women as nothing but lust objects, and the only person a woman can count on is herself.I guess if you were a feminist you would love this film because it confirms all of your ideologies. If, however, you're a lover of cinema you're probably better off steering clear from this one because even though the acting and cinematography are fairly good, the message is so utterly transparent and politicized that you'll likely be bored with it after 30 minutes.