Jorge Coelho

Beautifully shot and adapted. Casting, and acting was very good, and the direction and visuals were great and less fantastically than Del Toro's usual modus operandi. One of the truer adaptations of the book. I loved how they used Percy Shelley's poetry in the narrative. The CGI, especially the wolves were a bit off, but I'll allow it, given how good everything else was.

Clearly a freshman effort by Stephen King. No wonder he published this under a pseudonym. The story makes little sense even in a dystopian setting. The dystopia should be believable, for example 1984 and Bladerunner; the world should have internal consistency. The idea that a totalitarian system would arbitrarily waste males (following a war in which excess males would be in short supply) when their goal is to boost productivity is just plain dumb. If anything they would use dissenters and make examples of them in such an endurance walk. This would be done to assert state power, not to boost productivity. Nobody would watch such a tournament except for some degenerates who may wager on it. Even in true life authoritarian societies like the USSR, people didn't but into the state like this story seems that people will do. Even Asian authoritarian systems which tend to be more compliant the state isn't able to get people to buy into blood sport involving their citizens. Even Rome used slaves, prisoners, and dissidents in their blood sports. In addition, the idea that people could walk this long without sleep defies human endurance, even ultra marathoners take naps during their long races. Dumb ending, changed from the book.

Horrible film. A beach resort for people that don't like beach resorts? People remain on an island with limited booze and dating opportunities, no medical or dental care, all the while being lorded over by a lady boss. How is this believable? Terrible Leo DiCaprio acting to boot! Danny Boyle's worst film, next to A Life Less Ordinary.

I am giving this version 5 stars. Reviews are relative to a standard, a year ago i would have measured this movoe against the original, but now i am measuring it against the abomination that is Disney's 2025 version. May god have mercy on their souls, assuming they have souls, which is not evident in the writing.

No doubt that this is the fever dream, or fantasy, of a Spanish communist. The world is suddenly struck with a series of mysterious, and apparently super-natural, group of deaths; the richest people are mysteriously dying (in the order they appear on the Forbes richest people list). The premise was enough to get me to watch, but the execution was weak to poor. The movie started off in an intriguing way, but the middle was sloppy and the third act was simply missing. The writer didn't know how to end the movie, so he puts in a scene at the end where people are setting each other up, and tricking others to become richer. The plot holes were big enough to fit a billion dollars worth of pennies. The glowing teeth clearly hinted at a divine retribution, but no one connected that possibility and kept calling it a virus. How would a virus know the net worth of an individual? If getting rid of all your wealth would take you off the list, why not create a non-profit, why draw up documents to transfer the wealth to another poor soul when you can simply give it to a government, or to a NGO, and thus render you poor? Did Bill Gates and Warren Buffett get off scotfree given that they have pledged their fortunes to an NGO? Why wouldn't God start by killing off the most heinous of sinners (you know the ones I am talking about)? Cause communists don`t think those other sins are as bad as having amassed wealth? Europeans fleeing to Africa was clearly a commentary on illegal immigration, but it didn't make any sense in the context of the story. You are wealthy irrespective of where you move to, and by moving to Africa (a lower cost environment) you are relatively richer than you were in your home country. The plot clearly needed people to move to Africa so that the writer could make a comment on Europeans controlling their borders. It could have been a good movie, and could have had great morality tales embedded in it. But the only message the writers could thing to deliver was... being rich bad, controlling your borders is ironically bad. Really, that's it? It almost made me mad that I gave the movie a chance beyond the halfway point.

This movie suffered from a casting problem, specifically Millie Bobby Brown, Woody Norman, and He Guy Quan. Millie Bobby Brown seems incapable of emoting, Woody Norman is an amateur, and Tucci phoned it in. The two sibling leads failed to connect us emotionally with their characters, and that was partly the fault of the actors and partly the script. A few tweaks to this script coupled with some casting changes, and this story could have unique and charming and worthy of the source material; Stalenhag's art.

Just goes to show that good western series can still be written. The show is not perfect, for example the portrayals of the Catholic priests as saddists is over the top; cringe inducing at times and ahistorical. At times the show is overly romantic and dramatic. Feels like a sappy romance drama at times. Marriage in that era was more practical than romantic. The acting is superb and the customs and period articles are convincing.

Classic 90s Hollywood, well shot, genuine suspense, believable outcast stereotypes. Love the star studded aspect of the film. Jon Stewart acting nerdy is funny to me for some reason.

Not on of her best (O´Hara). Although I am a big fan of hers, I couldn´t stand her performance in this one. She had an emotionless performance, evident when her son dies. The hat mystery and reveal was overly dramatic, and just plain dumb. Why he didn't kill the rebel scalper when he first saw him is stupid. The male leads were middling as well. Pathe was known for these average and below average productions. With a little script work and better direction it could have been better.

A cinema triumph wrt to in camera effects. A criminally underrated Tom Cruise film. It has some sci-fi plot flaws, but ultimately it is an above avergae flm that is very entertaining.