Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

MovieGeekTonyTee For me, who already had some years of life behind me, the movie was almost a bit too cautious. I also recognized many aspects of other films :'Pleasantville', 'THX-1138', 'Brazil' and 'The Matrix'. It seemed to me like a lite version of' '1984' or 'Brave new world' in parts. For young people today, however, who do not yet have the background knowledge of the last generation, the film is perhaps a good introduction to "critical thinking". In an era where reading books seems to become increasingly unattractive, this may be a good option. But as one of the pre-reviewers wrote, I also noticed the inconsistency of the behaviour of the film characters. Many of the so-called rules have been broken far too often for the characters to be taken from their faithfulness to the rules. And what unfortunately bothered me most was the almost uninterrupted background music. As 'philosophical' entry for young people, the film is okay. For adults there is 'Blade Runner'.

dorainer I'm not sure if the written tale with its wonderful detail and engaging, thought-provoking story can ever properly translate to the movie screen. I loved the books and wanted to like the movie, but it sorely missed the mark. If I'd not read the books beforehand, based on this adaptation I probably would not be tempted to read them.Give the books a chance, all 4 of them: The Giver, Gathering Blue, The Messenger, and Son. Skip the movie, at least until after reading the quartet. They give the memorable saga a sense of completion that this movie does not.

Emerenciano First f all, watch this film!! It's worth trying and I'm sure most of people will like it. It's a chance to see Meryl Streep in another great performance and to enjoy Jeff Bridges's work as the the Giver of the title. The visual effects are other great features of this movie, as well as the beautiful sountrack. Don't miss "The Giver". However, I think this is the kind of film that could have been longer - it lasts less than 90 minutes - for we would like to see more of the story and its details. No, I'm not to give away much of the plot - you must have learnt about it by now - but I think some of the facts and facilities of community could have been more explored and explained. Seeing this, I wouldn't grade The Giver with a 10, but it doesn't mean we can not have a good time watching it.

gian_99 I watched this on Netflix, and was a bit unsure after reading some newspaper reviews from movie critics. I think this movie has been judged too harshly. I did not have any problem understanding the "how" human society got there. How it was possible to consider so much of the joys we take in life as something to be sacrificed for the opportunity not to suffer the pain we have. I did not have a problem to imagine a society orderly organizing the lives of every single member of the community. Some feature of the organization attained by the movie's society are old ideas really, out of some philosopher's dreams (or out of everybody else's nightmare): Plato's Republic came to my mind, during some parts of the movie, except that the society in the movies arrives to strikingly similar results from following objectives which are way different (getting rid of pain was not Plato's objective in an ideal organization of society). I liked the acting, especially in the character of the Giver, Fiona and Jonas. I think the use of black and white was interesting. What almost managed to ruin the whole movie was the rushed ending. It could have been much better: but as it is, it just looks like the money to keep filming suddenly finished up and they had to look for a quick way to end the movie. In any case it's still a 7.