I stumbled upon "616 Wilford Lane" by random chance, and of course I sat down to watch it, as I hadn't already seen it before. But as I hadn't even heard about this movie from writers Howard Burd, Dante Yore and Mark S. Allen, then I didn't know what to expect.
Granted, I wasn't really harboring much of any high hopes for the movie, as it had Eric Roberts on the cast list, but thankfully he was not in the movie all that much.
And the movie started out fairly okay, not great, but adequately entertaining. And it was fun enough to watch what was going on, especially since the movie was gradually building up with the pseudo-spooky stuff, which wasn't actually spooky, but I suppose it was meant to appear to be.
And then the movie takes a very unforeseen turn towards the end, and I must admit that it felt like a slap to the face with a cold, dead fish. That turn of events was just laughably bad.
But wait, it gets better, because the movie takes another turn after that, just when you get to digest that first twist. And that second twist, just rams in the knife of excruciating laughable pain even further. And I have to admit that the movie instantly went from being mediocre to below mediocre with that first twist of events, and then fell down to insulting with the second twist of events.
Of course I am not going to spoil the movie by giving away the ending here, but wow, come on. That was just ludicrous. And I must than writers Howard Burd, Dante Yore and Mark S. Allen from the bottom of my heard for virtually wasting 1 hour and 25 minutes of my life with this heap of garbage called "616 Wilford Lane".
John Littlefield really carried the movie quite well with his performance in the movie, despite of how much I abhor the storyline after this ending I was served. But I will say that he really performed quite well and put on a very believable performance in "616 Wilford Lane".
It should be said that the character gallery in the movie was actually quite good and the writers had definitely put some effort into establishing the characters and make them feel like people you could relate to. At least "616 Wilford Lane" had that working for it.
I am sure that there is an audience out there for a movies such as "616 Wilford Lane", just turned out that I wasn't a member of that particular audience, because I feel cheated.
I am rating "616 Wilford Lane" a generous two out of ten stars based on the initial build up of the movie. I can't say that I care one bit about the dual twists towards the end of the movie, no, not one bit.
