Let's be realistic.

good back-story, and good acting

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

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.

Didn't read the book, cannot compare. But! There's isn't that much movies about the topic, at least not good ones, so this one does its job pretty well. Surely better than "The edge" or any similar ones. In fact, I liked it even better than "Cast away"Although protagonist doesn't seem to have any survival instinct whatsoever, makes some horrible decisions throughout the film, and jump from no-clue teenager to kid making best spear for spearfishing is quite unbelievable, it still stands out quite well and entertains throughout those 81 minutes. Only part where you'd want to skip forward are flashbacks from home, which feels too much like a horror movie and is done quite badly. Felt like nightmares, not homesickness.If you like the topic, give it a go.

Bad Stuff: This movie is real crap. Bad stunts for one thing, they looked so fake I thought this was "The Twilight Zone". The flashbacks are pretty much useless. One part of the movie he thinks taking his anger out on a window will make his life better. I wanna know the casting director and if he was high because the acting, even from the adults was horrid. A kissing scene in this movie even sucked. This movie killed the book. The book was great. I highly do not recommend this movie. Not even for educational purposes. Good Stuff: I don't know what I can say really. There is some suspense parts that get you going, but they are quickly shot down by the bad stunt work and acting. My Verdict: Do not watch.

This movie is the adaptation of Gary Paulsen's "Hatchet". It is a good representation of the movie, and very hard to find. It is good to have in school libraries, as "Hatchet" and other Paulsen books are so popular. While the cover may be misleading to those who want an "action" movie, the film is faithful to the book, which is on a middle-school, junior-high reading level. The acting is good. The outdoor scenes are great. The landscapes and weather conditions that contribute to the book's success are easily the best part of the movie. Brian, a child of a broken home, is sent to visit the father, but is involved in a plane crash when the pilot has a heart attack. Brian is stranded in the frozen wilderness for 52 days.