This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Pretty Good

From my favorite movies..

A Masterpiece!

The book is significantly different from the book in one they changed the movie into more of a romance. The chief of elders is antagonist, Asher is more mature and more serious,And fiona starts have feelings, And added a whole bunch of random scenes. I understand that they changed up the movie to be more dramatic and attract the young adult and tween audiences but they could have been better in my opinion. I rate it a 5.

Another adaptation of a young adult book, and yet another film filled with mediocrity. It's not terrible, it's not good...it's just fine. A "perfect" society living in solitude incapable of feeling emotion, until a young boy is chosen to be "the receiver of memories". This entails exploring humanity's past to which he then soon realises that he is living in a falsified world. It's an intriguing yet superficial premise which details the glorious aspects of the human world and the harsh reality of war, famine etc. An artificial community created to prevent bloodshed and the capability of an imperfect world. Think of it as 'Equilibrium' meets 'Twilight'. There's a dull young romance, monotonous acting and an expositional script, much like the latter film, but with an inventive premise like the former. The production design felt rather clinical, I appreciated the futuristic architecture and dystopian rituals that were included in this paradise. The generational hierarchy was a clear indication towards the acting. Streep and Bridges gave their best with the material given, Holmes and Skarsgard were second best and then we come to Thwaites and Rush who were monotonous much like the monochromatic colour scheme. The colour gradient was put to good use, slowly incorporating pigments as our main character is introduced to memories. Taylor Swift is in it for ten seconds, no idea why. Heck, I didn't even recognise her at first. The script was just bad, filled with exposition and no character development at all. The editing was far too frantic with a concoction of quick cuts. Also the ending...what even was that? Is that really a conclusion? Really? It literally makes no sense. So despite the non-sensical finale, mediocre acting and dull script...it's not all bad. Just wasted potential I guess, but I'm used to that with these young adult adaptations. Might be the first film to use both "giver" and "receiver"...giggity...

Okay, i didn't thought at first that this movie would be good, but actually it was pretty amazing. The plot is amazing, the storyline also. Why i rated this movies 8/10 is just because the ending was just too fast. If it would be for 20 minutes longer, i believe it would hit the spot. Must see though :)

I'll start by saying that I did read the book many years ago in school and thought it was a good book at the time with an interesting, unexpected twist. I never went back to re-read it so while I knew what the gist of the story was, I didn't remember all the details.As a movie, I thought it was just OK. It wasn't bad, but there were several things keeping it from being great. First, the focus was on Jonas and The Giver moreso than any of the other characters, which made it hard to sympathize with the society. The actor playing Jonas was fine, not very memorable though. I would have liked to understand the perspectives of Fiona and Asher rather than just see them the way Jonas does - in broad strokes. The release of memories from The Giver to Jonas could have been shown or explained differently as I did not really understand how that process worked. Were they sharing a psychic link? Was there a chip embedded in their wrists allowing the transfers? Also, sometimes Jonas would see things as if he were living the past memories while other times it was more like he was seeing everything play out like a movie or something. Finally, the ending was not very satisfying. I won't spoil anything but there were things that happened that did not feel realistic or believable at all. The final scene was confusing. I would say if you have nothing else to watch and are interested in a fairly PG story, this is a pretty good one. So many TV and movies are so focused on violence, sex, and darkness that it is kind of nice to have a straight forward movie that makes you think a little in the process of watching it.