The Long Walk (2025) - now available on demand (spoilers)

I’ve been close to renting this one for a few days now and last night when I went to do it, I noticed it was free (if you have Starz). So I started it last night and finished it this morning.

Man, this movie is pretty bad. But I actually did kinda like it. The acting is horrible (and the accents are even worse ) and the actions of the characters rarely make any sense whatsoever.

The accent on the Asian kid was one of the funniest things ever. And the Baton Rouge kid was pretty bad too. And the black mushmouth dude’s accent was just…..weird and awkward.

I liked the rules of the walk. Not sure I fully buy into sleeping while walking nonstop. But at least they addressed it and sleepwalking is a real thing so I can buy it well enough.

I do wish we’d have gotten at least a little more backstory as to how bad things are that would make people want to leave their families and voluntarily die.

The end was a little strange in that the mushmouth dude was surrounded by a large crowd and then turns around and is alone. And there is zero chance those soldiers give him a loaded weapon.

But I get what they were going for, and that he wanted to do it for Ray.

But all that being said, I did like it. I think I maybe just like the premise more than anything, so while the execution was poor, the idea was cool so I dug it.

Curious to see what other people thought about it.