THE LONG WALK Movie Minute Review

This is Paul Salfen with your KLAK Movie Minute. In theaters this weekend is The Long Walk, the years-in-the-making Stephen King story that’s finally brought to life and gives us a jolt that’s a cross between Hunger Games and Shawshank Redemption. Starring Cooper Hoffman (the son of Phillip Seymour Hoffman) and David Jonsson and a host of other strong young men, the story follows a group of young men in a dystopian time competing for life-changing money and a way to break their cycle but they must walk until one remains as they get shot if they stop. Mark Hamill plays the nasty Major in charge and comes off unrecognizable and pretty detestable. And if it feels like hunger games, it’s from the director, Francis Lawrence, but the heart is really in the end of the movie where it shines like Shawshank or Green Mile. It’s a pretty rough trip and you know what’s going to happen in the end and you may not like it. That said, it is well done and ranks among the better King adaptations. The only problem is timing – we’re in a dark time in the world and society and this might hit too close to home and be too drab at the moment. That’s it for this week. Join me next week and every week for another Movie Minute right here on 97.5 KLAK, AMFM Magazine, and RECRD.