I had wanted to see this film for ages after reading about all of the excitement in the press.
On our first occasion of attempting to go see the film, Stuart (who I go to the cinema with) and I arrived at the cinema to find that everything was sold out, apart from Titanic in 3D and we just couldn’t bring ourselves to see that!
We managed to bag the film on the second attempt, after I thought we wouldn’t see it because it would probably be gone from the cinema.
This film is 1984 vs Lord of the Flies. Written as a teenager’s book, in a kind of Twilight without the vampires, it is a brutal and chilling view of what the future could bring. We are not a million miles away from the plot line in this film and what could possibly happen and that is probably the scariest part of the whole thing.
I though it was great. Fantastically made, spine-chilling but with a sense of hope that we are still left with one or two decent people in the world.
I haven’t read the books but I suspect it is pretty “American-ised” for the viewers and its left open at the end to allow for several other films. That said, I would definitely recommend it and thought it was fantastic.
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