I saw this over the weekend, and I wanted to digest it a few days, to make sure my feelings didnt change any about this movie, and unfortunately...they didn't.
1408 sucked. It had a cool premise, and they did absolutely nothing to build on it.
Let's start with John Cusack as a lead. I like his movies thru the years, and he plays a great sissified romantic lead, and is a good second fiddle guy. He was uninspired for this role. He played a writer who investigates "haunted" places. He wrote a well recieved novel before he started this, but his daughter died of an unnamed disease, so now its this.
He definitely had the bloated look of a writer, but other than that, totally cliche. You just don't believe anything about the character he plays. And since he's alone most the time, it makes the movie all that much worse.
Samuel L Jackson is pretty good in his small part, and the lady who plays his wife(?) isn't bad. To me, that was the highlight of the movie...and the popcorn of course...love movie popcorn.
The basic premise though is that he's going to investigate the room, because its supposedly haunted. So this "I don't believe in God because he took my daughter", drinking writer goes to this room to debunk it.
Boredom ensues. Nothing new, a few startles, and confusion happen. There were so many loose ends, they could have made one of those blankes, where you tie them together. The screenplay just seemed to add ideas, just to add them, with no real reason for it. And in the end...predictability.
On a scale of 10, I give it a 3, and I'm being kind.
