The Kite Runner [DVD] [2007] |
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Staring:
Khalid Abdalla, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub
Director:
Marc Forster
Average Customer Rating: 
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £3.00
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Amazon.co.uk review
Like the bestselling book upon which it's based, The Kite Runner will haunt the viewer long after the film is over. A tale of childhood betrayal, innocence, harsh reality, and dreamy memory, The Kite Runner faces good and evil--and the path between them, though often blurry and sorrowfully relative. Director Marc Forster (Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland) presents a painterly vision of Afghanistan before the Soviet tanks, before the Taliban--lush, verdant, fertile--in its landscape and in its people and their history and hopes. The story follows two young boys' friendship, tested beyond endurance, and the haunting of their adult selves by what happened in their youth--and what horrors befall their country in the meantime. The performances of the two boys--Zekeria Ebrahimi (Amir) and Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada (Hassan)--are the film's strongest, unforced and gently evocative. The penance paid by their adult selves is foreshadowed, but never predictable--and the metaphor of innocence lost, a common theme in Forster's work, keeps the film, like the title kites, truly aloft. --A.T. Hurley
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 not as good as the book, 2010-02-23
Absolutely loved The Kite Runner book but was very dissapointed with this film. It lacks the depth of human feeling that the book is so good at showing us, and I felt that the story was crammed into the film, it should have been made longer and the story properly laid out before us.
The Kite Runner, 2010-03-08
Watched this with my wife, who had previously read the book. It's a good story which we both enjoyed, but my wife felt the film fell some way short of the dramatic storytelling of the book. We also felt the film seemed to take a long time to get to the main plot - about two thirds of the film passed before it actually progressed to the whole point of the movie.
 Thought provoking, 2010-02-24
I would definitely reccommend this film. Dont let the subtitles put you off they are only at the start and you get so engrossed you dont mind them.
I would agree with the other reviews that I would'nt like a twelve year old to watch some of the scenes.
The landscape really got to me so barren and in places so desolate.
a absolute must see, 2010-01-04
i will never part with this dvd,it is tremendous,a story of war family love,deprivation,and survival, courage,guilt and rekindling,i can't recommend this dvd highly enough,everyone should have a chance to read it.
KiteRunner, 2010-02-19
I was initially loaned this film by a friend to see what I thought of it. For the first fifteen or twenty minutes, I wondered where it was going, but then the story started to pick up, and I was glad that I persevered. As a result, I bought my own copy, because it is the kind of movie that I could happily watch again. If you don't mind subtitles (which I don't), then this is well worth a watch. A very nice twist in the tail, and a good ending.
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5051188153533
Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: 2008-06-02
Running Time: 122
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2007 |
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