Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

cembalo-91031 For those who think this might be far-fetched I refer to the Christian and very influential theologian, St Augustine of Hippo, who thought sex was disgusting (and he had had quite a bit of it) and only redeemed by its procreative aspect. This ably demonstrates that reducing sex to that function is debased, and totally wrong. Yet sanctions on contraception are still widely upheld. Figure out the implications of that. The series ably illustrates the ridiculous and artificial restrictions on female behavior: women are overly delicate in speech and gesture but when violence is mandated they are expected to, and do, comply. And even for unbelievers, quaint, pious expressions are so successfully inculcated they can't resist mouthing them even when unobserved. It reminded me suddenly of Joan of Arc who saved France as a separate country, but simply had to die, because, what do you do with a talented, heroic female soldier whose existence undermines the male biases of the whole system? This movie is not merely futuristic but a kind of parodic reflection of the status and lives of most women in this so-called civilized world. Traditional religion has not been the only negative factor, but it certainly hasn't helped much.

Sarah C. This movie made me dig up my old IMDb account I never planned on reviving, that's how bad I find it to be although feel free to ignore my post because I liked the book better so I might be a little biased here. Those who didn't read the book might find this movie tolerable.The top reason I dislike this movie is because it utterly disregards the last meta-fictional part of the book which was so crucial to the story written by Margaret Atwood. The entire narration is actually a lost diary of your very average person who is no writer but finds herself suddenly trapped in the cogs of theocratic totalitarianism and still manages to "record" her thoughts on tapes and paper (what you read) to preserve her sanity just like Winston Smith from Nineteen Eighty-Four did which later is found and used as a retrospective account of a "bygone world" in a free civilization that studies barbaric aspects of its history, giving it a rather optimistic ending which was absent in the movie or just replaced with a watered-down Hollywoodish "I'll find you, baby. Oh look, it's the auspicious sunset *faces the sunset while smiling*" ending (living as an "unwoman" in a trailer park, is that Volker Schlöndorff's idea how to end this movie?).Handmaid's Tale without its proper context as a historic "document" is just pointless. Film adaptations like this convince me that some books are simply impossible to be adapted either out of budget reasons or other and if you still go ahead and make it, you'll end up with a pointless Hollywood's assembly line flick that shares original work's name only and is nothing but an empty shell of it, filled with popcorn audience-appeasing violent filler.Two stars for costumes which were far more impressive than those I made up in my head and the "All-Seeing Eye" design which while not original (you can see it on every one dollar bill, the symbol of Christianity's Trinity) is still profound and in this hypothetical world probably as scary as a Nazi Germany's swastika.- - P.S. One would be really tempted to draw parallels with what's happening in the US in 2017 and the plot of Handmaid's Tale with Planned Parenthood being threatened to be defunded, abortion clinics all over the country threatened to lose federal funding unless they, um, stop performing abortions, evangelical-approved far-right "Family Groups," one of them designated as a "hate group" by the Southern Law Poverty Center, sent to the UN Women's Rights Conference (2017) as representatives of US women's interest (I wish this was satire) and while the President was not shot yet and replaced with federal theocratic dictators that systematically tread on the rights of women I think that's all it is, a tempting suggestion. I wouldn't be so far from right if I called it a "cautionary tale" though.(2018 update: Flick is hardly worth even one star, let's be honest now.)

pdwigington Here is some trivia that probably belongs in the trivia section but I could not figure out how to add it there. The scene where Kate (Offred) stabs the Commander, as well as the garden and kitchen scenes were filmed at the former home of Mike Peterson in Durham, NC, . He was accused and convicted of killing his wife and currently in prison. The murder took place in the house, which is a relative mansion. Also, scenes were filmed on Duke University campus and well as downtown Raleigh, NC. I know this because I have friends who were extras in the film. If you enjoy bad science fiction then this film will be great for you. I actually liked it despite its "B" movie quality. Its much different then the novel, as the book talks about the situation in flashbacks, like you were learning it in a history class.

purespammail I am a huge fan of dystopian fiction and movies, but was highly disappointed by this piece of trash.Having read Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" in addition to seeing the movie, I can honestly say that this was one of the worst films I have ever been forced to watched. We overanalyzed the book in my English class, literally spending months looking for "hidden messages" and re-reading chapters. I saw the movie in said class (ironically, with all the dirty parts censored out), and the wooden acting, cheesy dialogue, and incredibly slow plot development only further turned me off of all things "Handmaid's Tale".The book itself is crude, insipid, and extremely vague; the movie is not much better. And while the novel contains numerous incomplete thoughts, pointless ramblings, and strong feminist inclinations, Harold Pinter's adaptation skillfully manages to retain these factors that made the paperback so worthless. I find it interesting that such a movie even got released here in the US, a country where women have it so "terribly":http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=133I would not recommend this movie to anyone with half a brain. It bored the hell out of me.