
After a plane crash in the ocean, a group of military students reach an island. Ralph organizes the boys, assigning responsibilities for each one. When the rebel Jack Merridew neglects the fire camp and they lose the chance to be seen by a helicopter, the group split under the leadership of Jack. While Ralph rationalizes the procedures, Jack returns to the primitivism, using the fear for the unknown (in a metaphor to the religion) to control the other boys, and hunting and ch... (Full plot summary below)
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After a plane crash in the ocean, a group of military students reach an island. Ralph organizes the boys, assigning responsibilities for each one. When the rebel Jack Merridew neglects the fire camp and they lose the chance to be seen by a helicopter, the group split under the leadership of Jack. While Ralph rationalizes the procedures, Jack returns to the primitivism, using the fear for the unknown (in a metaphor to the religion) to control the other boys, and hunting and chasing pigs, stealing the possession of Ralph's group and even killing people.
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| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaO brilhante texto de Golding sobrevive até mesmo aos tropeços da direção insegura de Hook. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe film, simplistically assuming the book's central metaphor to be imperialism - hence the military slant - retains the bare bones of Gollding's narrative, but that's all. There's little attempt to hint at the deeper issues. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAs a novel, Lord of the Flies never was much more than a Brat Pack Heart of Darkness. It’s doubtful a screen version could be any better than this one. |
| PopMattersJ.C. Maçek III1963's Lord of the Flies was a transcendent experience in accurate filmmaking, 1990's Lord of the Flies is only a movie. |
| Miami HeraldSteve SonskyDirector Harry Hook’s literal, unimaginative visual approach makes the tale seem mundane and tedious. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe symbolism is right up front and unmissable, and the story part -- the events that in theory should cause our throats to tighten and our pulses to quicken -- is pretty lame. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversHook may keep the action spinning, but the noise you hear isn’t life. It’s the sound of symbols crashing. |
| Tampa Bay TimesHal LipperHook's visual sense is not acute here; he doesn't show the spontaneous sense of time and place that made his first film, The Kitchen Toto (1988), so convincing. He seems more concerned with telling the story than showing it, and there are too many passages in which the boys are simply trading dialogue. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonThis version not only doesn’t surpass or match Brook’s, it makes the material look bad. |
| User ReviewRogueOneBestThis movie very good I love the inclusion of the pilot I was extreamly sad he was not in the book and he is the best character in the movie he adds so much development to the other characters. But this movie does have problems for exampleThis movie very good I love the inclusion of the pilot I was extreamly sad he was not in the book and he is the best character in the movie he adds so much development to the other characters. |