Rainey Dawn I loved the film adaptation of the book. The changes are not bad and the movie still get's Huxley's point across how technology and tyrannical power mixed together can be a devastation to society as a whole as well the individuality of humans. It also clearly shows the mundane emptiness of life when the thoughts, feelings and emotions of love are eradicated from society minus Bernard Marx who helps to show us that.The idea of a future where the government controls all your thoughts, feelings, emotions, habits, movements, love-life and more through technology and their own love of power and control is well done in this film adaptation of Huxley's Brave New World.The film and book will leave you with thought-provoking questions and help one to define their own beliefs: total freedom, total control, or somewhere in between.Note: If you like this film then you may like THX 1138 (1971) 9/10

lkoch-4 Being as Huxley is an incredible fictional writer, I feel that this movie did him no justice whatsoever. I love Peter Gallagher as an actor and I think he as well as some the other actors did a fine job, but others did not fit at all. The script deleted important scenes as well as backstory and destroyed the ending! If I had an unlimited budget I would create a new film version that would parallel "The Matrix" in special effects and art direction. Especially, what is described in the first chapter of the book. Now that we are in a time where people are anti-government and big corporations the movie would do well. I had previously thought about Gary Sinise to play Bernard (because he is a great shorter actor- how he became short was never revealed in the movie by the way), but I think Sinise may be too old now. To play Linda I picture Jennifer Coolidge, and for John a younger upcoming twenty something. The previous John I felt was too old. They needed to find actors that fit the book description. But the biggest disappointment was the script. Overall, I would not recommend this 1998 version if you love the book.

katecwatt If you want to watch a decent scifi movie, this is a pretty decent option. Good production values, acting, and an overall cheerful creepiness.If you want to watch a filmed version of Huxley's Brave New World, an extremely significant science fiction novel, this is not the film for you. It departs radically from the book, not so much in the way the society is represented generally (hedonism, sex, consumerism, caste...) but in the specific plot surrounding the main characters. Lenina and Bernard live happily ever after, with their baby, on the beach! The savages, no longer Native Americans, are now biker/trailer trash. And the savage's death is more accident than poignant social commentary. A delta-rebellion subplot is also introduced, interesting but not remotely faithful to the text.I bought this movie to use in a college-level lit class, and I found myself embarrassed to have shown it.

basrolf The Brave New World is a dystopia.The film didn't get into the whole story. The characters has depth.There are not as flat as in the novel.It's shown to bright and shiny.It's hard to adapt such a story, everyone sees a different of telling the story. In my mind, there are to many quiet important scenes, from book, left out. The whole film was boring. They didn't get the beginning and the end as well. It was awful to see how simple they tried to connect two chapters in the book in the film.The crappiest thing in the movie was that soma can kill some one. But the book told us that it is a drug with side effects, but I think that death is a quiet big side effect. In the end I would say, the film was badly done. It was to easy to see what would happen next.