Ivan Ivanov

The Long Walk is a blatant disappointment for a film that has been awaited for so long, and based on one of S. King's best books. Everything that could have been distorted has been done - the ending of the film has been completely changed, the number of participants has been halved, all the good moments in the book have been cut or mutilated, the gradually gaining scale of the race is completely absent, to degenerate into a miserable climax at a city intersection somewhere, filmed in close-up so as not to notice how small the crowd gathered is. The whole film remains the taste of a beaten-up, hastily shot low-budget film, and not even Mark Hamill can save it. Of the few good sides of the film, I can mention the light tone of 70s America and the beautiful pictures of a pastoral country that, even stricken by poverty, exudes a unique charm. The actors play well, but in no way can the main character, Garraty, pass for 18 years old or whatever he is in the book.