Excellent adaptation.

A Disappointing Continuation

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

The acting in this movie is really good.

About a third of the way into this I was thinking it a somewhat Cormac McCarthy-esque type of film, only without the good writing. But, still, interesting in a fashion. Then it falls off the rails. Sure, life was brutal for women in the day, but none of the female characters here helped themselves at all, only made the absolute worst decisions at the worst times. Also, most men are horrible jerks or criminals, and the very few good men are dumb as oxen. Finally, why don't film characters ever realize that guns are NOT knives? You don't have to get so close to someone as to touch them--or allow them to take your gun and kill you with it. Oh, that's right: BAD WRITING! Stand back a few feet and just pull the trigger WITHOUT the grandstanding speech. Sheesh! That's where I booked out, end of third act. Too late for me; save yourselves, and take a pass.

I always hate it when a movie or television episode portrays a "religious" person as being demented (like in Carrie, for example), and misquotes the Bible, saying that it says they can mistreat people. And then when some people see that, it reinforces their belief that Christians are bad and the Bible tells people to do bad things. And this one is one of the worst that I've seen (if not the worst). One of the main reasons I wanted to see the movie was because Dakota Fanning is in it. But I knew that she was raised as a Southern Baptist, so she would have known that the way the script was written went against proper scriptural meaning. But, maybe she was denouncing her Christian upbringing and was more interested in having a leading role. She did a decent job as a troubled mute, but the writing and content overwhelms any good acting and scenery. One positive thing I can say about it is that I liked that it was in parts because it made it easier to watch it in two nights.

What a nightmarish blend of hopelessness, graphic violence, incest, sexual deviance and cruelty towards women and children. I hated this movie and my two male friends got up and left around the 30 minute mark, refusing to watch it further. I, like a fool, kept holding out for a moral reckoning and justice which never materialized. Just a God awful, depressing, soul sucking waste of film. Do yourself a favor. Don't waste one moment of your life on this sick, twisted mess.

Not bad, not good. it is a good drama, but with many flaws. dakota and guy are great actors, but i find the plot appealing TOO MUCH. about kit harington: the impression is that they put him in the cast just to fill sausage, unfortunately nothing had to add useful to the plot.