Ignacio

Atrocious. Imagine taking source material that 16 MILLION (at least!) people have enjoyed, and thinking "I know, let's completely change the story to something unrecognisable and make it a load of pansy woke crap". Roal specialised in teaching us that if you have a problem, you take care of it with a little bit of help here and there. Also, what's with the gooback, unidentifiable blobs they designed as the main characters? Roal would be turning in his grave.

Boyle nails it again. All the usual tropes/story lines are dropped in favour of the unexpected. The ending is a tad bizarre, but that can easily be overlooked in favour of everything that built up to it. It's a film with two endings, really - the survival ending and then the bizarre one. The first and second half really compliment each other and find a great balance between extreme tension, jump scares and heart wrenching sadness. It was a refreshing move to not go all woke and "diverse", but instead show England and some of its history in the highly positive light that we deserve as a nation. Boyle clearly sees the fractured political situation we are in and subtly leaned into patriotism to build a solid floor for the community the movie is based around. Why everyone is scoring this low on here is beyond me, it's a genuinely great movie.