Christopher Walken plays a car crash victim who wakes from a five-year coma to find that he has strange psychic powers and can see into the future, in this gripping thriller based on Stephen King's best-selling novel. By simply touching hands with someone, he can see their fate - an ability that helps him rescue a child from a burning house and solve a series of murders. But then he realises he has the power to change the future. When he presses palms with cynical politician Martin Sheen, he realises Sheen is capable of pushing the nuclear button. Without doubt, this is the most faithful screen adaptation of a King story (even the excellent Christine falls short of the book). It does, however, get bogged down a bit with a murder mystery in the middle section, but it picks up again in the final third and there's a nice twist at the climax. Walken, always seemingly a man on the edge, is well cast as the central character and there are fine performances from Sheen, Herbert Lom and Anthony Zerbe.

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