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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This movie completely missed the spirit of the book, which was about adapting to and living in harmony with nature. To be fair, the inner transformation and thoughts of Brian were going to be difficult to show on the big screen, but it feels like they didn't even try. They could have at least showed a physical transformation and used more scenes where Brian has to persist with a problem to solve it.The story is set around a boy who is ditched into deep wilderness on his own, after a small plane crash. With no choice but to adapt, Brian has a hard time just finding food and shelter. In the book the experience is essentially one of growth and becoming a real man through tribulations. In the movie they have taken a less philosophical approach and have gone for straight action with little regard for character development. The scenes involving the bear are particularly ridiculous. I cant imagine Gary Paulsen the author would be very happy with this adaptation of his classic young teens novel.

Gary Paulsen's intriguing novel Hatchet finds itself on the big screen when Brian, played by Jared Rushton, crash lands int the Canadian back country. He needs survive and is eventually rescued by a plane after dealing with repetitive bear showdowns as well as constant crazy anger issues that Jared Rushton overly dramatizes. Mark Grifith, the director, really downplays this exiting novel by the events way too much.The movie is great when it comes to showing Brian's struggle with his parent's divorce, as well as the crash of the plane. Jared Rushton truly seems fearful in all the proper situations, but sometimes acted to dramatically. It is very action-packed and it is hard to know what Brian might have to face next, yet I feel as if I only enjoyed the movie because I had already read the book and knew what was going to happen.Mark Grifith didn't just hop over the rainbow though, meaning he messed up quite a few things. Some parts of the movie were really underwhelming such as the bear constantly showing up in place of the variety of other challenges and even starts becoming a main character. Then Mark Grifith tries to make everyone cry when Brian stabs the bear and blood unrealistically sprays everywhere, where after Brian discovers that the bear was trying to raise cubs and helps them out. Again not quite realistically. The movie also really downplays Brian's struggle to find food and to create fire, as well as to accept the crash. Everything in the movie happened much to abruptly and viewers who haven't read the book could never follow any of the events because they are completely out of order. The book's main idea is Brian's change where as the movie blows up unnecessary details that lead to confusion. Another very strange and unnecessary added detail to the movie s the ending when Brian suddenly slabs more hair jell onto his hair and accepts his mothers boyfriend. There are also some weird elderly people involved for reasons that are not clear at all.I think this movie deserves two out of five stars for it's lack of attention to the meaning of the book. What would have improved this movie is if everyone, in particular Jared Rushton and Mark Grifth, had sat down and thoroughly read the book instead of just scanning it for details.

***SPOILERS*** It was just a pain old hatched that his mom June Robason,Pamela Sue Martin, practically forced on him that in the end saved young 13 year old Brain, Jared Ruston, life. You could see that young Brain had his problems at the beginning of the movie in his parents June and Brad Robason, Stephen Meadows, splitting up over an extramarital affair that June had. It was in fact Brian who caught his mom and her boyfriend, Terrence H. Winkless, making out in the woods that had him freak out! That had him go so far, when his dad finally checked out for good, to almost kill himself.Now on a plane trip to the far off Yukon Territory where his dad works at an oil refinery Brian feels that he's getting over the split between his parents. But what's to come is far more serious then him being the son in a one family household. It's that the single engine plane pilot Jack Holcomb, Ned Beatty, who really ended screwing things up for all, him and Brian,involved. Showing off his flying abilities and even forcing Brian,who doesn't have a license, to fly the plane Holcomb in all the excitement suffers a massive heart attack! Thus leaving poor Btrian on his own to both fly and land the aircraft! Miraculously landing the plane in an uncharted lake in the Yukon Brain is now on his own to survive in the vast Canadian wilderness with the now dead as a doornail Holcomb ending up as fish food. It's here where Brain's hatchet comes into play with him using it to start fires, by striking it against a flint rock, as well as build his own tree house and fight off the wild animals in the forest.It was also Brian's hatchet, that he almost lost, that had him break through the half sunken plane fuselage, that submerged from the lake after a storm hit it, that had him get his hands on the survival kit with flares and an electronic sensing device that finally had him rescued. But before that happened Brian had to prove his worth in surviving both bear and wolf attacks as well as him being forced to eat worms and, as he called them, puke berries as well as the cold dark and dangerous nights in the Yukon; Where anything can happen and in Brian's case always did!***SPOILERS*** There was a real happy ending to the movie with Brian not only surviving his unscheduled stop in the wild but his parents, June & Brad, getting back together again. And now, also together with his dog Irving, the once very insecure Brian can start a new life in him knowing that he's got what it takes in making it in the cold hard and unpredictable world that he lives in: Both in civilization as well as in the wild!

i think the book hatchet is great. it is my favorite book right now. have read hatchet a few times and now i understand finally what it means. i think hatchet was very well written and edited. i think Gary Paulson the author of the book has lots of knowledge. it also teaches us a lesson on how to live int he wilderness, just like what Brain did. Brian was visiting his dad in the Canadian oilfields when the pilot of the two seated plane that he is traveling in gets a minor heart attack and dies. Brian is forced to land the plane int he forest because soon the plane is going to be running out of fuel. when Brian crashes all he has left with him is a box of cookies,a bottle of water,two oranges and the hatchet his mother had given him. he learns how to live in the wilderness and faces many dangers like, animal attacks, hunger and even a tornado. he learns how to make fire without matches and catch fish without a fishing rot or a net. he is finally rescued and taken back to normal life, but Brian is thinking of going back to the wilderness as he is used to it.