I absolutely loved it! Each death was really powerful, my favourite was the Native American guy shooting the guard and killing himself. He took one down with him, and went out on his own terms… to me it was as positive a death as anyone could have.

I sobbed at several points, the kid dying was a gut punch and really set the tone. I loved the friendship throughout, and Bakers hope that he’d get friends coming true. The ending to me was really bleak… Mcvries betrayed himself and threw his life away. It was all for nothing. I absolutely did NOT see Ray dying, total shock.

Definitely in my top 10 films!

Solid 4/5
Good symbolic allegory for the capitalist grind, punishing altruism and solidarity. I can see some might call it boring, as it’s 90% just boys walking and talking, but I enjoyed it. Will watch again sometime. Maybe an annual reminder watch. Like V for Vendetta.

It’s definitely a flawed film but it produced emotion and did move me. The end is a real punch in the guts. It’s like a great ‘B’ movie maybe. They made some changes from the novel and I think they were a mistake:

We don’t really get a strong sense of the physical suffering. The first third of the film is weakest I think but it improves from there. I appreciate that they hold focus on the walk, in fact we almost never look away from it. It did create interesting moments where we know a walker will die in the background and the others must keep walking, some interesting tension and reactions.

Some of the gore seemed just for gore’s sake though. The deaths are senseless and shocking in their own right. I would watch it again if comes to streaming.