LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

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

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Francis Beckert Movie Critique By Francis BeckertI have a strong feeling that Mark Giffith actually never went into detail about the main idea of the book. The main plot is all about a boy named Brian Robeson who is played by Jared Rushton. He was on his way to visit his father when the pilot gets a heart attack and the plain crashes in the middle of the Canadian back country. He faces many challenges of survival and goes through many changes in the personality department.The Movie really shows what it would be like in Brians situation. As well it also portrays Brians emotional personality, Jared Rushton was able to show what Brian felt like (sometimes to an extreme) and acted mostly as Brian would have done.Additionally; I have quite a few harsh critiques, but I shall begin with the biggest one of them all. The sequence of the move quite discombobulating in the way that some major events come in an odd order that doesn't make sense. Another huge event in the move doest exist namely Brian evolving into the new nature connected Brian. The movie is old so I will not criticize it on its pitiful special effects. In addition, the movie move an eon to quick making so that some very important events were not show either at all or in their required detail for the average person's satisfaction. Since the book is all about Brian changing and becoming more adept to nature I would expect something quite different than what Mark Griffith created. The movie pretty much skips over the main idea of Brian changing and doesn't show their effect on the plot. Lastly Mark Griffith added events odd events which I did not understand, like the ending of the book. I only give the Movie 3 stars out of 10 because of the odd plot and the fact that Brian doesn't change enough which is the main idea of the book. Although the movie does capture a bit of the book although strangely it is strangely altered. The movie has the wrong main idea and because of that falls flat.

tschwarz-225-279268 Mark Griffith made a Great film for the novel Hatchet .In the film a boy named Brian crashed with a plain and tries to survive in the forest of Canada.He learns many new things and begins the the world differently.I like that the film is Ralistic. The movie does a great job with showing us how to survive for example how to make a fire or how to build a shelter. I don't like the special effects in the film because the film is old. The movie does a bad job to making it simple to understand for example the secnes wear he thought about his parents.I give the movie 3and a half star because its really good .It has many interesting things but, i found the special effects bad and that Brian things about his Parents.

kluseba This movie is a moderate budget television adaption of the critically acclaimed novel "Hatchet" written by the American author of young adult literature Gary James Paulsen. The short novel published in 1987 tells the story of a young teenager who has to survive for several weeks in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash.The main challenge of this eight-two minutes long movie from 1990 was the fact that the whole story is carried by the main character alone. Most of the novel and the movie takes place in the wilderness and features no dialogues but some soliloquies. Child actor Jared Rushton did an accurate job even though I disliked the fact that a sixteen-year old teenager played the role of an unexperienced thirteen-year old boy.Despite the solid acting, this movie sometimes feels like a National Geographic documentary that shows us incredible landscapes such as forests, lakes, mountains and waterfalls and a multitude of animals such as bears, porcupines, raccoons and wolves. This is definitely beautiful to watch but gets quickly boring.Due to the low budget, some scenes feel a little bit goofy. One can clearly see that the wild animals are trained and tame. The fighting scene between the main character and a bear in a lake even made me unintentionally chuckle.On the other side, a couple of scenes of this movie are actually filled with tension. Where the book sometimes gets too descriptive, the movie has a faster pace and the solid soundtrack helps up building some atmosphere. The sequence where dream and reality mix as the main character encounters a lone wolf is very well done and my favourite part of the film along with the campfire fighting scene. A few mildly shocking scenes in form of the eating of worms or the appearance of the pilot's ugly cadaver in the plane wreck added some spice as well.A few elements in the movie are different from the book. Some new ideas such as the covering with mud to protect from mosquitoes work very well. On the other side, the flashback scenes are a little bit redundant. The alibi side story around the divorce of the main character's parents is rather uninteresting in the novel and in the movie as well from my point of view.In the end, this short movie was quite entertaining and is worth to be watched once if you liked the book and the survival genre in general. Especially younger audiences should like this movie even though nothing beats the classic Enid Blyton movies of my childhood. Adults should rather go for survival movies like "The Grey".

lnajam i think the book hatchet is great. it is my favorite book right now. have read hatchet a few times and now i understand finally what it means. i think hatchet was very well written and edited. i think Gary Paulson the author of the book has lots of knowledge. it also teaches us a lesson on how to live int he wilderness, just like what Brain did. Brian was visiting his dad in the Canadian oilfields when the pilot of the two seated plane that he is traveling in gets a minor heart attack and dies. Brian is forced to land the plane int he forest because soon the plane is going to be running out of fuel. when Brian crashes all he has left with him is a box of cookies,a bottle of water,two oranges and the hatchet his mother had given him. he learns how to live in the wilderness and faces many dangers like, animal attacks, hunger and even a tornado. he learns how to make fire without matches and catch fish without a fishing rot or a net. he is finally rescued and taken back to normal life, but Brian is thinking of going back to the wilderness as he is used to it.