I read "1984" for the first time just a few years ago, and thought it was a thought-provoking classic novel. I decided to check out one of the movie adaptations and felt the film version from 1984 felt fitting. This movie is really bleak, like the source material, and often mundane. However, I think the mundane feeling is by design and think the movie does the best job it could to portray this dystopian tale. I feel the story is best suited for the book medium, and can't imagine a movie or television series ever matching the quality of it. A lot of the themes are what make this a timeless story and a necessary cautionary tale. Overall, I don't think it is a movie anyone would seek out for entertainment value, but like the novel it is based on, it does leave a considerable impact and raises a lot of topics worth discussing.

It is essentially just 1:1 with the original book by George Orwell. I think the movie could have captured the “dystopian” world and society a little more, and sometimes the music choice felt a little odd, it has a really “80’s” music feel (which I guess 1984 is the name of the title) but I feel as though orchestral scores would suit this movie better.

this is literally 1984

Não é ruim, e está longe de ser, sem falar que é a adaptação que apresentou o partido e toda a ditadura da história da melhor forma possível, com destaque na arquitetura da cidade e do ambiente opressor que o filme consegue passar. Entretanto, o filme se atrapalha na hora de desenvolver os personagens, tornando-os vazios em personalidade e carisma, sem falar que muitos trechos importantes do livro foram adaptados de forma muito superficial, e outras foram completamente descartadas.

This is how the book is. Just honest to the text.

1984 is one of the best books ever written, but this big screen version fails to do it justice... It's bleak but the story doesn't flow well. It's too disjointed... Worth a watch, at least until a new version is made!

1984 is one of the best books ever written, but this big screen version doesn't do it justice... Too disjointed, no flow to it. Worth a watch, until a better version is made!

As important today as ever--You must watch it !!

What 1984 lacks in vigor, it makes up for in George Orwell's thought-provoking and prescient dystopic themes.

While on his deathbed in the 1940s, Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning to humanity. This fairly accurate and well acted adaptation was published in the titular year, but today, more than ever before, we can clearly see the similarities between this film and our current society

George Orwell's adaptation of 1984 to the screen remains a thin margin to the book. You can only do so much in 2 hours. This movies remains a large mystery to this day and shows you all the checkpoints on how to avoid government under a dictatorship.

3.25 stars. This classic dystopian novel is portrayed with excellent acting. Since 1949 this plot shows people what to avoid in government.

A fittingly uncomfortable experience. George Orwell's novel is very faithfully adapted to the screen. The atmosphere is filled with a sense of helplessness and looming dread and the visual effects are wonderful. It is just a sense of constraint that haunts this film in a detrimental way, that mainly concerns the noticeably sluggishly quick-fire pacing. It just feels like more could have been done in this film. The minimalistic and dialogue-heavy third act of the novel just doesn't translate very well to the realm of film (for the couple of minutes that it takes from it before immediately moving straight on to Room 101; time doesn't feel as torturous for Winston as it does in the novel).

It is the likely the perfect realization of Orwell's novel on a purely visual level. I have minor quibbles with the screenplay but at least it is a total downer. Also Hurt is the only conceivable choice to play Winston

Many emotions, good movie.

This movie is an amazing experience, it is beautiful in its own ways and different from most movies you see these days.

Boa adaptação do livro. O filme em si foi bem produzido para o ambiente totalitário do regime do "Big brother".

It is still relevant today

This was probably the worst movie I have ever seen, I don't know why anyone would enjoy this.

great movie, better book. everyone should see or read it. Its a warning, not an instruction manual.