In an alternate 1970s dystopian America, a competitive long walk features lottery winning young men, who can voluntarily trek for hundreds of miles to outlast one another, with the sole winner winning unimaginable riches. The only downside: anyone who slows down below 3 miles/hour or stops for an extended period is immediately shot and killed. In other words, everyone but the champion is sure to die.
Playing out like a fusion of The Hunger Games (its director, Francis Lawrence, helmed the Hunger movies) crossed with Squid Game, "The Long Walk," based on an early Stephen King novel, features Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson, among other notable actors. The mostly female-absent movie is at times moving, at times disturbing, but most notably, when it counts the most, surprisingly poignant.
The ending is refreshingly unexpected, and will likely leave the audiences in an extensive silence. How this story remained unfilmed for nearly fifty years is beyond me, but I sure am glad it finally got the cinematic adaptation worthy of its source material.
☆☆☆1/2
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