5/5 Excellent Movie
  by P. Lewis (Newark, NJ USA)
I purchased this movie for my sisiter. She loves it and it was great to get a movie from the Criterion Collection for such a reasonable price. Very Happy with this purchase. Thanks Amazon!

4/5 lord of the flies, original black and white version
  by Literature Teacher
This was a stark and moving video, and stayed true to Golding's language and intent.

5/5 An Intelligent, Gripping Classic
  by I, conoclast
I was pleasantly surprised by LORD OF THE FLIES. I expected the movie to be a much more straight forward affair, depicting the events but never evincing the novel's psychological aspects. Instead, I found it to be dark, brooding, and compelling; it seemed very much like a foreign film at times. 'LORD' is an enjoyable film that I will likely revisit again.

2/5 Essential? eeeeh!
  by Vic Rattlehead 09' (Fremont CA USA)
what I hate about criterion is they're overpriced this art house version is stripped down without the goodies! read the book way back in the day the movie did not live up to expectation problem with movies with kids is the bad acting! interesting story-line but loses focus & somewhat dull. survivor t.v. show in it's original form? every season should have a piggy character and gets killed by other tribe members!

5/5 Sticks to the book
  by Jeffrey A. Hensley (Harrisonburg, VA)
Some movies stray too far far from the original book. This movie however sticks true to course.