Hunger (2008) | Rotten Tomatoes (2025)

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Jeffrey P Not much reason for anyone with an outsider perspective to care about any aspect of this or to sympathize or empathize with anyone in it. I thought it was a mess with no flow other than the shock and awe of brutality and morbidity. Smart squeegee scene though, completing the transition from disgusting prison brutality to disgusting hospital morbidity, I guess that's why it got all the high reviews. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/25/24 Full Review Na I'm patient when it comes to slow movies but this was just terrible. The positive reviews don't make sense, even as an ‘art piece' this was a just bad movieVery little dialogue, plot, not visually appealing, not much of a soundtrack, it just seemed like a lazy job from the writer to the director.The actors were good though. The editor was fine. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/31/23 Full Review Mathilde D This movie enables me to understand the Troubles in Northern Ireland from the dissenters' perspectives. There's no better filmmaker to bring it onto the silver screen than Steve McQueen, a Briton of Caribbean roots who grew up in a household where the TV got turned off the moment Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher appeared. A visual artist by training, McQueen's mise en scene of bodily fluid as prisoners' weapons is vivid and original. Michael Fassbender's losing significant amount of weight on a diet of berry and nuts in his portrayal of Bobby Sands is emotionally triggering. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/29/23 Full Review Gvr M issa dumb movie. who eats like that Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 04/09/23 Full Review Audience Member I found this on TCM and, having been a student of the period, watched it and found it painfully unflinching. IMDB does a good job of describing the movies most intense moments, and Fassbenders commitment is similar to what Hanks did for Castaway, or Bale in The Mechanic. I would have liked a few minutes of follow up after Sands death, but I won't argue with Steve McQueens vision. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review dave s Steve McQueen's Hunger, essentially a film told in two parts, is a wildly stylish but dark and harrowing story of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In the first portion, set almost entirely within the walls of a prison, IRA members convicted of acts against the state are brutalized by baton-wielding guards. With virtually no dialogue to speak of, McQueen uses stark imagery to convey the savagery that exists within the confines of the jail. The film transitions into its second act with a remarkable scene of dialogue between prisoner Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender, who is remarkable) and a priest, an approximately fifteen-minute long continuous take where Sands explains the impending hunger strike he is to embark on. Hunger pulls no punches, telling the IRA's perspective of The Troubles in unflinching detail, a grim reminder of the dangers of blind faith, imperialism and generational hatred. Rated 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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