lord of the flies

Rating: Null/10 (23 November 2004)

I heard so much about the movie before watching it. Then I finally rented it out and watched it. I must say I was a bit disappointed. The authors of the movie, albeit very young and inexperienced, should have formed or decided on the genre of the movie more accurately. By that I mean that they combined a thriller with human psychology and the movie turned out to be rather weak on both parts. I focused more on the psychological part of the movie, as I am not really a sci-fi or thriller fan, but instead expected much more from the dialogues and cast performance. Actually, the dialogues were quite stereotypical and vague, I must say I expected them to be much profounder and thought provoking. The development of the state of mind of each character as they move through the cube should have been given more emphasis to, maybe more research should have been done ... This aspect of the movie really reminded me of the Lord of the flies by Golding, however the latter was much more interesting and enigmatic.