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Here in the UK I saw this at the cinema in 1987/1988 ? And was so disappointed. For every great film he made John Carpenter made a stinker-and this stinks...after 35 years it was shown on TV so I thought I'd give it another go,sadly-like milk-it has not aged well. While the premise-a container holding The Devil- is really good its never followed up properly,I always remembered the scene where one of the characters says that after carbon dating it seems that the seal on the container is one million years old,everyone within earshot does not bat an eyelid and carries on despite this shocking find,this little snippet is never mentioned again. This ruined it for me and I sat bored through the rest of the film,glad when it had ended.

"The Man Who Never Was" is a brilliantly crafted British wartime drama that told a true story,although that film introduced an unnecessary subplot about a German spy,it was still a great example of classic British film making. Why anyone decided to remake it is baffling,the new version contains many subplots that in real life did not happen and the fact the the subject matter is over 70 years old then why wait so long to remake it and why deviate from the source material ?.....I suppose we should be thankful that the Americans did not do the remake,it would have ended up with THEM single handedly winning the war.

Take a terrifying horror novel-one of the authors best-eviscerate it until barely nothing is left then write an atrocious screenplay and film it,job done...not much more I can add.