Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050070020250
Format: PAL
Label: MGM Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: September 20, 2004
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1984

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Rating: - Magnificent adaptation
'1984' as I see it.

Personally, I find myself terryfied (if not paranoid) of any brutal history repeating itself - be it identical or remotely similar to Orwell's disthopia. In real life we all survived a certain '1984', the year Orwell's claims were supposed to come to prophecy. But how much freedom can we expect from the 'modern' world today - growing fast on (amongst other things) greed, hipocrisy, paranoia, constant charge with weapons, poverty, mass-consumerism and finally - the ... Read More

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Rating: - Orwell's nightmare visions brilliantly realised.
Based on the book by George Orwell, this is one of the most disturbing films I've seen n a long time. In fact it is probably more relevant in the UK today than at any time since the novel first appeared. John Hurt is fantastic in a nightmare world of an overbearing government personified in the form of Big Brother staring at everyone in every room. The notion that things we take for granted - real food, freedom of thought, love and families - could one day become forbidden by law is certainly a ... Read More

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Rating: - Good film of a great book
Given that '1984' is one of those books that's just too well-written to survive dramatic adaptation with all its depths and ironies intact, Michael Radford did a pretty good job of making a movie out of it back in the year that the book was actually set. He used as locations the same then-derelict London docklands that Kubrick would use for "Full Metal Jacket", giving the film an authentically bombed-out look. The largely English cast is excellent. Suzanna Hamilton, in her first film role, is as ... Read More

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Rating: - Bobbins
Rubbish. Boring.

Watched this straight after reading the book. The book is a masterpiece of British literature. The film sent me to sleep.

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Rating: - Dial This
If you're in the UK, and you have a telephone landline, dial: 1984

You should get an INSTANT reply 'Specialist Services' ?

???

Anyway - this is a deep portrayal of the not so distant fate of humanity's hope, severely condensed into a theatre-bite-sized exposure.

A great film either way.

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