Excellent, a Must See

A Brilliant Conflict

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Not having read the book as I was in high school at another country, I was not aware this movie is considered a young adult fare.I was bored throughout while I anticipated the obvious storyline from the get go. This could have been a 30 minute "Twilight Zone" episode and still come off preachy. This topic has been approchaed before ("Logan's Run" is similar) and I believe it could have been developed better.Young adults can think for themselves and don't have to be soon fed morality games with obvious bias towards what is good vs. evil, moral/ethical, etc. I couldn't wait for the movie to end and then forget i ever saw it.I believe there are plenty of worthwhile stories young adults can read that can provoke discussions about social issues better than this.

I had expected a variation and moral similar to George Orwell's "1984" but what I ended up waiting for was a mumbling Dennis Quaid as the, to be looked up to know it all. I can suspend belief and imagine, far away places but this show took it to it's very hard to imagine that only hate and conformity exists. I may have heard, "Yeah that's the point" but when I had a teacher friend tell me that's what's being read in a different classroom I was shocked. Reality is that we all go through trials of different sort as children with allowances to grow,sing, love, etc. We faced bullying,rivalries, fights, etc. but found a way to learn and grow and get over it.How many movies, or books portray "Infanticide" to make a point? Only the desperate. The scene of this actually taking place with the father using lethal injection then disposing the baby down a trash chute is reprehensible. Oh the classroom where it was taught also had LD kids in attendance. Given recent atrocities like "Sandy Hook", the Church shootings in Texas, children were harmed or murdered. Year's ago I can't recall this happening for real or in print. To profit on any idea of harming newborns,this was the most vile and to use this to sensationalize a story? Is there someone "out there" seeing this whom would imitate, or murder, rather then seek a safe place for a newborn? I doubt teenagers (yet) have the capacity to understand this attempt at being "Highbrow" and should've been scrapped to begin with, and not emulate the attitude this story ...tries to convey.

This is a a dystonian world everyone is happy and peaceful but without emotions or free will. Until the main character shows up.We have been here before, but this is a nice attempt at a retelling. The production and camera work is quite nice and the acting is pretty good. The awakening of the senses is well handled and is the high light of the film.For me though this film was doomed from the start. The dystopia is actually quite appealing. We are told that no one has emotions, yet they do - otherwise the audience wouldn't engage with the characters - they are just dialled right back. So the writers have to throw in random problems to make the world worth rebelling against. So all of a sudden people are drowning babies for no apparent reason.The writing really fails near the end. As restrictive dystopias go the inhabitants here sure get a lot of space when they go rouge.Then with a few minutes of screen time left the writers have to end this thing some how. This seems an impossible task, so they throw a smoke bomb on the floor and do a runner out the fire escape in the confusion.Has promise and some really nice sequences, but is ultimately baffling and stupid.

The film's use of black and white to color was great, but I would have chosen a real redhead to play the love interest. Her hair was too dark to show the glaring contrast of seeing color for first time. Another complaint is the memories they used. I would have used World War II instead of Vietnam. Having the main character live through the memories of someone storming the beaches of Normandy.