The Kite Runner [2007] | ![The Kite Runner [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VKIDXq4RL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Khalid Abdalla, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 23
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 122
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5051188153533
ASIN: B0011P4X8S
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: June 2, 2008
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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 what I had hoped for. August 7, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I watch lots of films from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran and after reading the fantastic book I had high hopes for the film. Some parts - probably the bits set in Afghanistan were good, but on the whole I found the film unsatisfying. Rushed and even confusing if you hadn't read the book. Prime example - after he had been beaten up and was in the hospital, the tension created in the book when it seemed everyone may catch up with him was unbearable, but ommitted from the film! A wasted opportunity. Please please don't ruin Thousand Splendid Suns by making it into a film!!!
 Touching, compelling and deeply uncomfortable film July 30, 2008
I cannot comment on how the book has been translated into film, as I've not read the book. On its own terms, the film is a strange but compelling mix - some parts are painful to watch, while others make you smile. The acting is very good. Overall, well worth watching.
Kite Runner July 19, 2008
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I only watched a little of this dvd before i got fed up and took it off. The film is in subtitles and at times you cannot read the english titles underneath as they are so quick. Why they made this film in what ever language they are speaking I cannot for the life of me understand.The book was great but the film left me cold .My view is dont bother to buy it .KB
A superb adaptation of the book July 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have read the book and that isn't always a good thing to do prior to watching the film, however, this is a great screenplay of the novel, I loved it. The casting was excellent, although maybe Assef wasn't quite how I'd pictured him, and Kabul in the 1970's was brought to life brilliantly. You could smell the fragrances and feel the hustle and bustle of a place that now seems to have been lost forever - but I do hope not. It's truly harrowing in parts though, so have a few tissues handy.
My Brother's Keeper... July 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The 2007 Academy Award-nominated film is directed by Marc Forster, based on the novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini. The film parts set in Afghanistan were mostly shot in Kashgar, China. Most of the film's dialogue is in Persian Dari.
The movie follows the plot of the novel, telling the story of Amir, a well-to-do (even if somewhat spoilt) boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, whose best friend is Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant. Hassan is as loyal as a brother only could be, but Amir observes a grave incident where he did not intervene. Riddled by guilt he seeks ways to get rid of this constant reminder of his personal failure. He succeeds in and from then on is tormented by the enormous guilt of abandoning his friend.
The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime.
Years later an opportunity presents itself to redeem the childish act.
This is an engrossing film on courage, betrayal and despair, hope and love.
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