In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.
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Cooper Hoffman
Raymond Garraty #47
David Jonsson
Peter McVries #23
Garrett Wareing
Stebbins #38
Tut Nyuot
Arthur Baker #6
Charlie Plummer
Gary Barkovitch #5
Ben Wang
Hank Olson #46
Jordan Gonzalez
Richard Harkness #49
Joshua Odjick
Collie Parker #48
Mark Hamill
The Major
Roman Griffin Davis
Curly #7
Director
Francis Lawrence
Screenplay
JT Mollner
Tagline
"The task is simple: walk or die."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$20,000,000
Revenue
$62,871,697
Production
Lionsgate, Media Capital Technologies, Vertigo Entertainment, about:blank
Brent Marchant
September 5, 2025
Director Francis Lawrence’s screen adaptation of Stephen King’s novel by the same name is one of those pictures that makes me want to stand up in the theater and exclaim that the Emperor is indeed naked (though I’d probably be quickly escorted from the moviehouse if I did so). The source material for this production, originally written at the time of the Vietnam War, was an allegory about the draf...
user1638
September 14, 2025
This review contains spoilers. As you can probably tell, this isn't a "good movie 10/10" type review and I honestly don't know how to write a good one without spoiling things. I believe these spoilers are necessary to understand just how disappointing the film is and that they don't deter from the movie's "experience". You can already guess that half of the characters will die after the first ...
MovieGuys
September 18, 2025
Take a road, a few military props and a small group of young actors and you have the essentials of "The Long Walk". This is story is, in essence, a condensed metaphor, for walking the passage of life, its hopes, its dreams, nightmares and what life truly means to each of us, when its about to end. This is, in its own way, also a harsh repudiation of state sanctioned violence. Where the young ar...
CinemaSerf
September 19, 2025
Initially, I though this had something of the “Hunger Games” to it, as a group of fifty young men assemble at a military roadblock. It appears they have each won a lottery and a prize of untold riches awaits the winner of a walking competition. The rules are simple. Keep above 3 m.p.h. and don’t stop. “Ray” (Cooper Hoffman) pays an emotion farewell to his mum and joins a group of lads that include...
ergenekon
February 13, 2026
Has "the hunger games" vibe with less detail on world fiction, and does not intend to explain it neither. A 6/10 movie with good sub-message.
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