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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The book itself was great. The movie? Not so much. The book went into quite a bit of detail while also containing suspense and mystery. As for the movie, I felt that it was based too much on the book and didn't leave a lot to the imagination. I could pretty much predict what was going to happen next. Had I not read the book before seeing the movie, I probably would have liked the movie better but to me, watching it was just a big waste of time and had I not been watching it for an English class, I probably would have watched another movie before I even got half way through this one. If you can avoid it, I would not recommend watching this movie.

This movie completely missed the spirit of the book, which was about adapting to and living in harmony with nature. To be fair, the inner transformation and thoughts of Brian were going to be difficult to show on the big screen, but it feels like they didn't even try. They could have at least showed a physical transformation and used more scenes where Brian has to persist with a problem to solve it.The story is set around a boy who is ditched into deep wilderness on his own, after a small plane crash. With no choice but to adapt, Brian has a hard time just finding food and shelter. In the book the experience is essentially one of growth and becoming a real man through tribulations. In the movie they have taken a less philosophical approach and have gone for straight action with little regard for character development. The scenes involving the bear are particularly ridiculous. I cant imagine Gary Paulsen the author would be very happy with this adaptation of his classic young teens novel.

Thierry Heigold 26.01.2015A cry in the Wild: movie critiqueThe movie "A Cry in the Wild", directed by Mark Griffith is a movie adaptation of the novel Hatchet with some variation. The main plot is that Jared Rushton (playing Brian) crashes in a lake in the Canadian wilderness after his pilot suffers from a heart attack, that kills him leaving Brian alone in the unattended plane. Brian survives the crash and lives through the dangers of nature until he gets rescued from a plane that has picked up his emergency message he sends with the help of the radio transmitter he finds in the emergency box that he rescues from the plane after it get's brought up by a tornado.I like the fact that Brian learns to find grubs by watching the bear. This is realistic and shows that Brian only survives by using common sense, especially because you see that Brian loses a lot when his actions aren't based on common sense. Also the meeting with the wolf is very realistic as well. Also, the fact that he talks with the gut cherries and imaginary people, show the influence of loneliness on on the behavior of the human. Also from what you can see in the movie Brian knows one thing or the other about surviving, which you can clearly see when he smears his face in mud as protection, or when he scares of the bear with fire, and still he isn't an expert which becomes clear while he builds the fire ore when he meets with the bear.Mark Griffith still missed some things, some of these things are that he takes a lot of times to build the shelter which makes him look like a total amateur, even though some other things show greater knowledge about survival. Another thing I dislike about the movie is that a lot of scenes are unrealistic for example the way the 2nd fight with the bear ends and that he finds the bear cubs on the next day. Also, I think that it would have made more sense to build the spear (which was much more elaborate than described in the Book) before the Bow and Arrows and I would think that Brian would have better things to do then keep exact count of his food supplies and that he would use the plane piece he finds for it. Also I would have shown more of the fool bird hunt then the first kill of one. What I really dislike is that Mark Griffith squeezed everything into such a short time as well as well as the fact that Brian is pretty careless when he unpacks the emergency box, which I don't like because I think that after all he's been through he would treasure every thing in the box.In my personal opinion the movie deserves 5 Stars of 10. My suggestion to making it better would be make a little more breathing Space and make unrealistic scenes more realistic.

In my Lit. class we've just finished the book, Hatchet, and this movie is nothing like the book. (1) Brian never ate worms in the book. (2) He didn't know the pilot's name. (3) His mom was cheating on his father in a station wagon not in the woods where anyone could see. (4) The man the mother is cheating with doesn't have black hair, he has blonde. Now for the unrealistic parts of the movie: (1) A thirteen year old can't punch his fist through a window in one punch. And for the acting, the kid who played Brian was a horrible actor. However, I do believe that the scenery was impressive, though I highly doubt the director even read the book.This movie is good if you have not read the book Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen, but if you have, then begin a complaint letter to the director.