Movie Critique "A Cry In The Wild"
Mark Griffith teams up with actor Jared Rushton to portray Gary Paulsen's novel "Hatchet".The story is about a boy named Brian Robenson who survives a plane crash and learns to survive alone while changing dramatically throughout this interesting story. The movie states very clearly how frustrated and alone Brian feels. Jared Rushton is very good at acting out Brian's thoughts and goals after he lost hope of being rescued. It is also very clear for the audience, when Brian is angry. Mark Griffith really messed a few things up like changing the sequence of events in "Hatchet". He also changes many details of the book, which are often replaced by the same black bear. Also, there are many unnecessary props including: bear cubs, a piece of metal from the plane, worms, and a glass from which the pilot drinks. It is very hard to see Brian evolving in to the new Brian throughout the movie. Actually, he doesn't. He overreacts with things like his fire going out and his hatchet falling to the bottom of the lake. There are big gaps in between scenes, like when he suddenly is very good at archery. Gary Paulsen describes very clearly how and why Brian goes and gets the emergency pack from the plane, most of this was ignored in the movie. Mark Griffith and his team change everything and put it in to a different order. Also, it seems as if they ran out of time, since most of the important events are all seen in the last 15 minutes. It reminds you of somebody pressing a fast-forward button, and all the important events which are still to come are all shown to the audience at once, right before the movie comes to a surprising end that is not written about in the book. There are parts when you expect something exciting to happen, but the result is disappointing. All in all, "A Cry In The Wild" deserves 2 from 10 stars.The movie may have an exciting theme, but the content is not very interesting. Mark Griffith did not include enough important details, though he added to many things that did not correspond to the original story too earn it another star. A first step to more stars for the movie would have been to leave out all the bear attacks and put the events in to their original order so that it would resemble the novel "Hatchet" a bit more.
Mark Griffith teams up with actor Jared Rushton to portray Gary Paulsen's novel "Hatchet".The story is about a boy named Brian Robenson who survives a plane crash and learns to survive alone while changing dramatically throughout this interesting story. The movie states very clearly how frustrated and alone Brian feels. Jared Rushton is very good at acting out Brian's thoughts and goals after he lost hope of being rescued. It is also very clear for the audience, when Brian is angry. Mark Griffith really messed a few things up like changing the sequence of events in "Hatchet". He also changes many details of the book, which are often replaced by the same black bear. Also, there are many unnecessary props including: bear cubs, a piece of metal from the plane, worms, and a glass from which the pilot drinks. It is very hard to see Brian evolving in to the new Brian throughout the movie. Actually, he doesn't. He overreacts with things like his fire going out and his hatchet falling to the bottom of the lake. There are big gaps in between scenes, like when he suddenly is very good at archery. Gary Paulsen describes very clearly how and why Brian goes and gets the emergency pack from the plane, most of this was ignored in the movie. Mark Griffith and his team change everything and put it in to a different order. Also, it seems as if they ran out of time, since most of the important events are all seen in the last 15 minutes. It reminds you of somebody pressing a fast-forward button, and all the important events which are still to come are all shown to the audience at once, right before the movie comes to a surprising end that is not written about in the book. There are parts when you expect something exciting to happen, but the result is disappointing. All in all, "A Cry In The Wild" deserves 2 from 10 stars.The movie may have an exciting theme, but the content is not very interesting. Mark Griffith did not include enough important details, though he added to many things that did not correspond to the original story too earn it another star. A first step to more stars for the movie would have been to leave out all the bear attacks and put the events in to their original order so that it would resemble the novel "Hatchet" a bit more.