Pretty decent movie The best thing about this off centre satire is that tries to be something different, it gets some sort of point across about the insanity of war, and it certainly has charisma. I honestly thought it would be getting better marks from reviewers here, but apparently the film fails to impress generally. It is quite a difficult movie to analyse I think, because it is clearly trying very hard to crystalise the essence of the famous book, if not include all the details of it, and I believe it must have at least... more info
great film I think that if someone had written this as a screenplay, and the book had never have existed it would have received far more acclaim than it has, and wouldn't have half as many negative reviews as it does (on this site at least, generally amongst critics the film has become universally acclaimed, though all admit it is flawed, which is to be expected when it had to follow up to Heller's book). It would take a 5 hour film to do the book justice and to expect a visual duplicate of the book i think would be... more info
Terrible Film How this film got an average of 4 stars out of 5 I'll never know. The book is one of the best and funniest things I've ever read so I was sorely disappointed with the screen version. I do think that this film should be remade sometime in the future, with the right script adaptation and director it could be superb!
Dissapointment, but i guess watch it anyway. Just watch the film after finishing the book last night. As soon as i opened the package and saw that it was a 15 certificate i new i was going to dissapointed. The book was graffic, disturbing and moving and the film missed the point completely. Pointless slow dialogue scenes and missing story lines instead of screaming insane realism has almost ruined the memory of book for me. I'm almost afraid to replay it for my husband because i've been raving about the book for a couple of weeks! Big name... more info
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