The Long Walk

brutal as it is tragic but its tragedy with flaws.

the long walk is good but it sometimes thinks i care about some its characters more then i actually do.
i mean yeah i really like...4 of its characters but other then that it feels as if the other characters serve pete and ray, they are great characters and jt moller's script give david johnnson and cooper hoffman allot to work with but that same script something thinks its allot smarter then it is.

some of its vfx look messy but they are minor things so it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
i like the film and allot of the performances.

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I can't believe I cried so many times about boy friendship, and I can't believe that's Mark Hamill.

I didn't know anything about his other than the very basic premise of boys have to go on a long walk in a Hunger Games kind of way. I thought there would be a horror element, because it's a Stephen King movie being released in the fall. There's not.

It's a lot of walking, a lot of dialogue, and a little bit of Judy Greer. I was LOCKED IN the whole time. I didn't love the last 5-10 minutes, but I'll give it some grace there.

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<I>The Long Walk</i> isn't one of Stephen King's best book-to-film adaptations. However, it's an entry worth watching. 50 young men voluntarily participate in a tradition where the last person standing sets to win a large sum of money. Along the way, though, guided by a set of strict rules, that last person standing (walking) - no pausing or going off course - is declared the winner. It's not an original concept, but, given recent times, sounds like something that would eventually come into play one of these days (like The Running Man, another film based on a King book).

David Jonsson, previously seen as "Andy" in <I>Alien: Romulus</i>, carries this film. His character here, much like "Andy", is supportive. He knows this is a do-or-die situation, but makes the best of it by embracing his fellow walkers, engaging them with conversation and positive reinforcement. As for the others, they're background actors whose stories go by like dust in the wind... until the last man standing.

<B>Final thoughts</b>: An effective thriller that gives you a bit of the feels because each character brings their all to the table, but the ending is predictable and underwhelming. Also, this is the only role I feel that mark Hamill was good for.

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