A Cry in the Wild (1990)

Fresh and Exciting

A different way of telling a story

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Mark Griffith made a Great film for the novel Hatchet .In the film a boy named Brian crashed with a plain and tries to survive in the forest of Canada.He learns many new things and begins the the world differently.I like that the film is Ralistic. The movie does a great job with showing us how to survive for example how to make a fire or how to build a shelter. I don't like the special effects in the film because the film is old. The movie does a bad job to making it simple to understand for example the secnes wear he thought about his parents.I give the movie 3and a half star because its really good .It has many interesting things but, i found the special effects bad and that Brian things about his Parents.

I have read Hatchet and it's sequels multiple times now and this movie was very far off the book. In the book he was near a lake (not mountains and lake) so the mountains totally ticked me off. At one point there is a cut scene to a wolf howling (just totally random). The movie was made in 1990 and was mostly for teens, but a movie that should have closely resembled Cast Away resembled Homeward Bound more. They added many cheap scenes that took away from what the book had left the reader with. While this movie should have shown a boy forced to adapt (like the book), it more showed a boy out on a camping trip. Instead of leaving the viewer with a sense of appreciation for the wild (like the book), it left you feeling afraid to enter your own backyard. At the end of the movie, after all of the horrible wilderness things you've seen, it tries to close out with the whole "appreciation" factor, but it was like arguing one thing throughout only to change its point at the last second.I do believe that Hatchet was not justified in this movie and that a movie based on Hatchet (and Brain's Winter) should be made. Not only does the book put you in the head of a teenager (fighting teenager problems) he also deals with the secret of his mom's affair and his parents divorce. He adapts to the wild, only to find after every adaptation more hardship. It is in my mind the ultimate survival novel (for all ages) and was no where near given its dues by this movie.Therefore I didn't like the movie, because it felt as a disservice to the book, but others who didn't fully visualize the book or just want a feel good, without much thinking, it is an "alright" movie.

Bad Stuff: This movie is real crap. Bad stunts for one thing, they looked so fake I thought this was "The Twilight Zone". The flashbacks are pretty much useless. One part of the movie he thinks taking his anger out on a window will make his life better. I wanna know the casting director and if he was high because the acting, even from the adults was horrid. A kissing scene in this movie even sucked. This movie killed the book. The book was great. I highly do not recommend this movie. Not even for educational purposes. Good Stuff: I don't know what I can say really. There is some suspense parts that get you going, but they are quickly shot down by the bad stunt work and acting. My Verdict: Do not watch.

i think the book hatchet is great. it is my favorite book right now. have read hatchet a few times and now i understand finally what it means. i think hatchet was very well written and edited. i think Gary Paulson the author of the book has lots of knowledge. it also teaches us a lesson on how to live int he wilderness, just like what Brain did. Brian was visiting his dad in the Canadian oilfields when the pilot of the two seated plane that he is traveling in gets a minor heart attack and dies. Brian is forced to land the plane int he forest because soon the plane is going to be running out of fuel. when Brian crashes all he has left with him is a box of cookies,a bottle of water,two oranges and the hatchet his mother had given him. he learns how to live in the wilderness and faces many dangers like, animal attacks, hunger and even a tornado. he learns how to make fire without matches and catch fish without a fishing rot or a net. he is finally rescued and taken back to normal life, but Brian is thinking of going back to the wilderness as he is used to it.