Review of The Giver (2014) by Thatonenerdyguy — 13 Dec 2018

I have never read the book, so i'm just going to stay to the film for this review. for the first half of this movie I was surprised, I found my self enjoying the movie with an interesting story and some damn good camera work with some pretty good shots. although this movie really gives in to how bad teen book adaptations are. SPOILERS after this paragraph.

The movie shows how human emotions are vital to a stable society, which I like but then they brought in love which allows the terrible romance to take place, if you thought the romance in the star wars prequels were bad you will hate this. The 3rd act consists of the main character trying to save a baby he grew a connection with.. for some reason as they are planning to "release" him (kill him) but the main character sets off to a journey outside the futuristic utopia and tries to get to the "edge" so memory and emotion will be restored to the utopia. but then the movie leaves an ending where you have to guess what happens next, don't get me wrong I love ending like this but when there done right. the question is "did the main character survive?" but he had the baby that was with him... who he was trying to save... from being killed. are you seriously telling me the main character lead his friends and himself in danger to save a baby and he just kills it? not to mention the love interest is about to get a lethal injection, what happens after then? does she die or because emotion is back all of a sudden they wont execute her? I cant believe I was forced to watch this steamy garbage.