The Long Walk

Synopsis

A group of young men compete in a contest known as "The Long Walk", where they walk to be the last one walking or be executed, all to keep order.

Review

You would think that a movie about people walking for days would be boring as all get out. However, this is the complete opposite of what you get from this movie. It is full of real emotion and energy for a simple premise of a movie.

The main character sounds so much like a coworker of mine that if I closed my eyes, I would place money it was hit. The cadence and the voice itself match my coworker so well. More importantly, they fit the character. An idealist that is there for a specific purpose. Not just because they won the "lottery," but for something more intrinsic to the story. There isn't a person or character in the movie that I felt didn't make sense, or did do a great job. I will say that Mark Hamill is so weirdly aggressive in this movie as compared to the rest that it almost seems out of place. However, if you through in a dude who feels he owns the world, than it works.

There is a lot of brutal violence in this. I typically save this for the "Parental Rating" section, but it is a lot. Having recently watched Midsommar on this work trip, that review will come out soon, I am not sure which has a more brutal death scene. It can be difficult to watch.

My Rating

I was interested in this movie from the trailers. Mainly for the review and conversation it could have. I am not a big Stephen King person, but I understand how good his work is. This movie is outstanding, and I am curious how people say that the book is even better. It just might be the horror version of The Martian and it's book counterpart The Martian. As I have discussed this movie with the other host of the podcast and coworkers, I had made one state. "This is a 9 of a movie, that if you made an argument for 10, I don't know if I could disagree." The only reason it isn't a 10 is that the pacing, pun unintended, can be slow. Slow enough that you think that it needs to speed up and then something crazy happens. It is a 9.

Parental Rating

In a single song voice, you'd have the statement "Hell na. Na na na na nah." Hopefully you know that song. There is an incredible amount of language and violence. The violence is extreme and will make you shake your head in surprise. My dad would be out relatively quickly from the language. My mom would be out for that same reason. If she made it through that, then the first death she would turn it off. Rejected by both.

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