Brilliant and touching

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Thierry Heigold 26.01.2015A cry in the Wild: movie critiqueThe movie "A Cry in the Wild", directed by Mark Griffith is a movie adaptation of the novel Hatchet with some variation. The main plot is that Jared Rushton (playing Brian) crashes in a lake in the Canadian wilderness after his pilot suffers from a heart attack, that kills him leaving Brian alone in the unattended plane. Brian survives the crash and lives through the dangers of nature until he gets rescued from a plane that has picked up his emergency message he sends with the help of the radio transmitter he finds in the emergency box that he rescues from the plane after it get's brought up by a tornado.I like the fact that Brian learns to find grubs by watching the bear. This is realistic and shows that Brian only survives by using common sense, especially because you see that Brian loses a lot when his actions aren't based on common sense. Also the meeting with the wolf is very realistic as well. Also, the fact that he talks with the gut cherries and imaginary people, show the influence of loneliness on on the behavior of the human. Also from what you can see in the movie Brian knows one thing or the other about surviving, which you can clearly see when he smears his face in mud as protection, or when he scares of the bear with fire, and still he isn't an expert which becomes clear while he builds the fire ore when he meets with the bear.Mark Griffith still missed some things, some of these things are that he takes a lot of times to build the shelter which makes him look like a total amateur, even though some other things show greater knowledge about survival. Another thing I dislike about the movie is that a lot of scenes are unrealistic for example the way the 2nd fight with the bear ends and that he finds the bear cubs on the next day. Also, I think that it would have made more sense to build the spear (which was much more elaborate than described in the Book) before the Bow and Arrows and I would think that Brian would have better things to do then keep exact count of his food supplies and that he would use the plane piece he finds for it. Also I would have shown more of the fool bird hunt then the first kill of one. What I really dislike is that Mark Griffith squeezed everything into such a short time as well as well as the fact that Brian is pretty careless when he unpacks the emergency box, which I don't like because I think that after all he's been through he would treasure every thing in the box.In my personal opinion the movie deserves 5 Stars of 10. My suggestion to making it better would be make a little more breathing Space and make unrealistic scenes more realistic.

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.

Didn't read the book, cannot compare. But! There's isn't that much movies about the topic, at least not good ones, so this one does its job pretty well. Surely better than "The edge" or any similar ones. In fact, I liked it even better than "Cast away"Although protagonist doesn't seem to have any survival instinct whatsoever, makes some horrible decisions throughout the film, and jump from no-clue teenager to kid making best spear for spearfishing is quite unbelievable, it still stands out quite well and entertains throughout those 81 minutes. Only part where you'd want to skip forward are flashbacks from home, which feels too much like a horror movie and is done quite badly. Felt like nightmares, not homesickness.If you like the topic, give it a go.

I have read Hatchet and it's sequels multiple times now and this movie was very far off the book. In the book he was near a lake (not mountains and lake) so the mountains totally ticked me off. At one point there is a cut scene to a wolf howling (just totally random). The movie was made in 1990 and was mostly for teens, but a movie that should have closely resembled Cast Away resembled Homeward Bound more. They added many cheap scenes that took away from what the book had left the reader with. While this movie should have shown a boy forced to adapt (like the book), it more showed a boy out on a camping trip. Instead of leaving the viewer with a sense of appreciation for the wild (like the book), it left you feeling afraid to enter your own backyard. At the end of the movie, after all of the horrible wilderness things you've seen, it tries to close out with the whole "appreciation" factor, but it was like arguing one thing throughout only to change its point at the last second.I do believe that Hatchet was not justified in this movie and that a movie based on Hatchet (and Brain's Winter) should be made. Not only does the book put you in the head of a teenager (fighting teenager problems) he also deals with the secret of his mom's affair and his parents divorce. He adapts to the wild, only to find after every adaptation more hardship. It is in my mind the ultimate survival novel (for all ages) and was no where near given its dues by this movie.Therefore I didn't like the movie, because it felt as a disservice to the book, but others who didn't fully visualize the book or just want a feel good, without much thinking, it is an "alright" movie.