I was going to stick this in one of the movie threads, but I thought I'd get a better shot at a reply over here.

Has anyone seen the film adaptation of "Apt Pupil"?

It came out in '98 but I never got around to seeing it (I had heard they changed King's ending and that turned me off at the time).

I changed my mind after recently reading the novella again, so I was going to order it from Netflix, but was a bit put off by the mixed reviews, and I trust the judgement of BBers a lot more anyway .