SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

izeitschel Working together with Jared Rushton, Mark Griffith puts the beloved "Hatchet" , by Gary Paulsen on screen. 13 year old Brian Robeson must live in the Canadian wilderness after his plane crashes. Now Brian must gather all his courage to survive.First, the better part of the movie is that Mark Griffith and his team could really capture the forest and put it on set, add animals to the movie and film the landscape from the top and bottom. It is also good that the movie isn't too long, since the book has very much detail.Now, the juicy details about the bad stuff. The movie happens to be poorly acted, the storyline is out of original placement, the special effects such as the tornado and the blood sputtering out of the bear look fake adding to that, important scenes turn out to be no more than a bear attack or a tiny side scene. Additionally, I do not understand why all animals in the wild must be food or foe.Finally, the ratings. I feel "A Cry in the Wild" deserves one and a half stars since it isn't well acted, it has poor special effects and animals are seen as enemies. To make this movie better I suggest following the book with only minor changes and putting some real hard work into it. All in all the movie "A Cry in the Wild" is not to my satisfaction.

lpulai Movie Critique1 In the movie Hatchet there is a boy named Brian. He wants to fly in the summer to his dad because his mom and his dad are separated. On the way the pilot gets a heart attack. and Brian crashed in the wilderness, in a lake. He must survive only with a hatchet. At first Brian can't survive but then he made a bow and a spear. He finds a shelter, he catches fish with his spear and he shoots foolbrids with his bow. After his tornado Brian saw the plane in the lake. He swam to the plane and gets the survival pack. In the survival pack was a black hunting firearm and a rescue pistol and lots of food a, a knife, an emergency transmitter and stuff like this. At last he gets rescued from a man who lives close to Brian.2 I like how Brian makes the fire because its more real than in the book. In the book you only read it an in the movie you WATCH it so. 3 I really like that Brian landed with luck in the lake. In the book he landed without luck in the lake.4 I give the movie 7 stars because Mark Griffith did a very good job and the movie is really awesome.

allanmmiller I wish I could give this movie a zero. Cheesy effects and acting. The only reason to see this movie is so you can see how bad it is. Lets start with the kid who plays Brian. What a geek! I couldn't believe the mullet! Then there was the talking to himself. I guess they couldn't just have the movie be silent, but still. Of course they had to have him skinny-dipping too, not something I wanted to see. But Jared gave a great performance, compared to the special effects department. Everything from the bear to the crash was something I could do myself, and better. I seriously doubt that Gary Paulsen had anything to do with the production, seeing as the movie was not even called Hatchet. Finally, I do not think the writer had ever read the book, seeing as nothing was the same. I think the book was great, but this movie stunk like a smelly goat!

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.