Question for those who haven't read the short story
If you've never read Stephen King's short story, do you understand that this entire thing is a very long revenge plot? I know he talks about trying to get revenge, but are you able to follow his reason for getting the job on the road construction crew and the details that go into the planning of the revenge plot?
I felt that the biggest area in which this movie fell short is in the planning for the revenge. King goes into great detail in the story explaining how the detour would be done, how the hole would be measured and dug, and how it would all be covered up, in a three-day span. I didn't get much of that from the film.