NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

s-16089 The book is significantly different from the book in one they changed the movie into more of a romance. The chief of elders is antagonist, Asher is more mature and more serious,And fiona starts have feelings, And added a whole bunch of random scenes. I understand that they changed up the movie to be more dramatic and attract the young adult and tween audiences but they could have been better in my opinion. I rate it a 5.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "The Giver" (2014)Based on a children's book published under the same striking main title by Lois Lowry with first literary reception in 1994, when this modestly-produced over post-production color-forcing to cross-cutting pseudo-innnovations-striking motion picture directed by 63-year-old Philip Noyce, known for directing competently as capable with the "Tom Clancy's Political-Thriller" screen-adaptations of the 1990s and the breaktaking open-water-thriller "Dead Calm" (1988) starring Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill; here comes an exclusively distributed thoughts-provoking movie by "The Weinstein Company" in Summer 2014 with respect to another take on a "Totalitarian-Society-Model", where teenager gets medicated, brainwashed and restrainingly hold-back to fulfill actions of choice under the selected few enforcing elders, led by professionally-acting no further beats sharing actress Meryl Streep in clinches with a seemingly unbalanced Jeff Bridges as the character of "The Giver", who prevails in keeping sacred memories from the past in a atmospheric designed library by production designer Ed Verreaux, when an hopelessly mis-cast leading actor Brenton Thwaites, who seemed to had rebound with last year's minor role in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales" (2017), as the character of Jonas, choosen by an island-isolated society of perfectly made-up human beings, to be the "The New Giver" in successions to a picture that after just 85 minutes, believing to hold "The Holy Grail" of wisdom in the spectre's mind; must fail to come full circle by just stopping at a point of nowhere safe, with its unless compelling as emotionally to skilfull cinematographic captures by lighting cameraman Ross Emery in favors toward director Phillip Noyce, who just got overthrown by production needs without just showcasing a utterly wasted supporting cast surrounding Katie Holmes, Alexander Skarsgard and beat-talented musician Taylor Swift to a missing peaking nemesis-confrontation, which would have made "The Giver" a motion picture for the ages.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

thekarmicnomad 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.

minhazhimu Awesome casting, Great story,Visual effects and color grading is just awesome. The philosophy is the best part I loved about the movie. The importance of human emotions,how killing each other for religion, cultural differences, color will create hatred for them. To save our human civilization we have to accept the differences or perish or wipe out the differences. The film just choose the 3rd option. But without love,emotions, culture,faith,difference we may survive but not as a what truly means to be human.