Overview

• With the review embargo lifted, the film is drawing strong notices, including a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score from 25 reviews and an 80 on Metacritic as reported Tuesday.
• Francis Lawrence directs from JT Mollner’s screenplay, with Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson and Mark Hamill leading the cast ahead of the September 12 theatrical release.
• Multiple reviews describe the movie as graphically violent and emotionally harrowing, noting it fully shows on-screen executions and embraces an R-rated intensity.
• Stephen King publicly said his condition for the adaptation was to depict the shootings, a stance reviewers and the filmmakers cite as central to the film’s uncompromising tone.
• Lionsgate’s marketing included a Culver Theater “treadmill elimination” screening that required attendees to walk for the 108‑minute runtime, echoing the story’s enforced pace around three miles per hour.