Alicia I love this movie so much

ThiefHott Too much of everything

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

timothyschmal I never saw the movie, but just read the book. Up until the ending of the book, I truly thought it would end sanely, with something upbeat, kind of like "The Shawshank Redemption." But, alas, it ended like "The War of the Roses," instead.Up to the ending, the book was truly engaging, in a dystopic sense. Huxley's cynicism about the future was huge and grotesque.I can only wonder if the movie brought that out to his level.But, the ending, in my thoughts, should have ended with John away from the insanity, living a good life as a "savage." The others, fulfilling their potential. The girl, instead of driving John to suicide, finally seeing his vision and world view and accepting him and it, and finding real love. Yes! I am a romantic. I'd rather be that than the cynic that was Huxley.

ct-scan This movie gets some of it's ideas from Huxley's book, but basically they just pick and choose certain things they want. The story does not flow in the same way, so SOOO much is missing. They make up story lines that completely go against Huxley's story, actually made me so irritated to watch this movie.To name a few points which I found most disturbing: Bernard and Lenina's relationship is portrayed to be way more than it should be. Someone (a Delta) is trying to kill Bernard because the DHC programmed him that way. The DHC is overall just evil. Pope is not in the story at all with John and Linda, actually, the whole reservation thing is completely changed! Linda isn't fat or horribly disfigured by age, but yet she is called fat.Read the book, it's only like 200 pages.

Dave Green For those of you students out there looking to get away with not having to read Huxley's novel, this film version will definitely do you more harm than good. The most interesting aspect of the novel for me is analyzing Bernard's motives and beliefs and how he sells out after returning from the reservation with John, but that is not part of this movie at all. In this film, Bernard is more like Helmholtz, a radical individual trying to break the chains of "civilization" which he definitely is not in the novel. Anyways, long story short...read the book, or at the very least the Cliff Notes. This movie is a good supplement, but it doesn't hold a candle to the novel itself.

kiochan In the far future the World Controllers decided to build a world without any families and crimes. People are no longer born, they are mass produced. There are five different classes, which differ in intelligence: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. The Alphas are the most intelligent people and the Epsilons are the most stupid ones. They are conditioned to believe, that they live a happy life and take the world's perfect drug "soma". Berndard and Lenina are both Alphas and are together since 4 months, although it is not really allowed to have a partner for this long because in the "Brave New World", everyone belongs to everyone else. However one day, they decide to visit an outlying reservation, but crash with their helicopter into it. In this reservation they meet John and his mother, who was previously a part of the Brave New World and take them back into "civilazation"...The plot is not really new. There are already other utopian films like "Brave New World". I like the idea of a character of the "other" world, going into the "new world". You can see where the mistakes are lying in the new system of society. In the film the producers concentrated more on Lenina than on John, like it was in the novel. They really changed Huxley's flat characters into round characters and the ending is quite different in the film, than in the novel. Tim Guinee (John) plays his characters very good, however I imagined a totally other actor for John, maybe a smaller one. As for Bernard (Peter Gallagher) I imagined also a smaller actor for him and not so "good looking", maybe someone like the guy who plays Henry Foster. The best job on the characters did Sally Kirkland (Linda). You really can see that she reflects Linda very well and likes to play her role. BUt in the end I never heard of one single one of the actors for BNW and I think that they should have picked some other actors, but all in all it can be said, that they are not too bad choicesm it could be worse. There were not really special effects from with you can say "Wow, gorgeous!" and the soundtrack is not really unique, too. You can only .hear some techno music and sometimes really soft music, which seems to me, that they can bring your every minitue to sleep and on first sight, I Didn't even realize, that there is this soft music (am I already too good conditioned?). So you can say, that this movie is not really outstanding with elements that make a film unique. I only recommend this film to people who like this genere and want to see what could happen if mandkind wants to create a perfect society without wars and real feelings. But I really hate this movie, I like the novel better