The Long Walk - Reviews

It’s modern cinema at its most hardcore.

Watching The Long Walk, its cruelties feel inevitable. The engine of fascism that sends young men marching on screen is real...

One of the best Stephen King adaptations ever made.

King wrote The Long Walk in the late ’60s as an allegory for the Vietnam War; now, it feels no less bleak for tapping into the financial nihilism of our times.

Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence offers a much more subversive young adult dystopia while adapting Stephen King’s first novel, The Long Walk.

Despite the stamping of hundreds of feet, The Long Walk smolders with the blunt power of a burned flag.

...the grimmest mainstream movie for some time.

...the spectacle of inevitable violence remains haunting regardless, especially as we watch these kids, resigned to their fate, try to go out with as much of their humanity intact as possible.

...a grim and gripping late-summer treat coated in poison.

...only gets better as it progresses; the more dire the situation, the more honesty it brings out within the characters.

...one of the best King adaptations.

No matter how exhausted, desperate, or in agony they appear, you can't help but hope they keep walking. Not just to survive, but so we, the audience, don't have to say goodbye to them either.