Stephen King's DOLAN'S CADILLAC Movie Trailer
I am a big fan of Stephen King's stories and when they get made into film I usually am excited to go out and see them. But unfortunately with this next film based on a King short story called 'Dolan's Cadillac' looks awful. I was really hoping I would like what I saw, but after I watched the trailer it looked worse than a made for TV movie, which means this will probably go direct to DVD. I don't see how they can release this thing in the theaters and hope to get people to fill the seats. Stephen King may be a great writer but it doesn't mean the people who adapt his work will make a great movie. This story could have made a great film! But it was just badly executed, and the acting just seems horrible. The movie stars Christian Slater, Emmanuelle Vaugier, and Wes Bentley.
Just so you know the trailer pretty much tells you the whole story so there is no reason to watch the movie after you watch this trailer anyway.
In case you didn't get all that in the trailer, here is a story summary of the film.
Tom Robinson is a peaceful, law-abiding school teacher. When his bride Elizabeth accidentally witnesses a murder, he finds himself on a road straight to hell. The killer is James Dolan, Las Vega's most ruthless and untouchable mob boss. Elizabeth agrees to testify against him and soon we find out just why Dolan has remained untouched. Anyone who dares to go up against him faces deadly consequences. In Elizabeth’s case, it's a bomb strapped to the bottom of a car.
Devastated by her death, Robinson tries all the legal channels at his disposal to bring Dolan to justice. But without hard evidence, Dolan remains free, able to run his empire seemingly untouchable. Frustrated and alone, Robinson begins to receive "visits" from his dead wife urging him to seek revenge. Is Elizabeth really reaching beyond the grave, or has he begun his slow decent into insanity? Robinson continues to hear the voices and is driven to construct his own plan -- an elaborate and perilous one-in-a-million shot.
Joining a dangerous road construction crew of ex-convicts, he battles the heat and dangers of the Nevada desert working by day, and at night trying to infiltrate Dolan's underworld. Haunted by the ghost of wife, Robinson transforms himself into an obsessed vengeance machine, pushing himself beyond the breaking point of mind, body and spirit.
When the two men finally meet deep in the heart of the desert, Dolan's Cadillac climaxes with an amazing test of wills - the ultimate duel in the sun. The Cadillac, which has been Dolan's armor, may likely become his tomb.