Slaughterhouse-Five

An extremely loyal interpretation of the classic Vonnegut novel, the Slaughterhouse-Five film skirts the issue of its complicated premise by way of a quick typewriter scene. Seeing it on-screen somehow makes everything seem less surreal than it was in print, even when the setting randomly shifts from a **** POW camp to a sharp, sparsely-decorated single room apartment on the surface of an alien world. Little more than a handful of loosely-related tales from the protagonist's life, this anthology contains four distinct scenes tied together by jarring moments of deja vú and a strange, out-of-step sense of humor. A curious adventure, if only due to the sheer absurdity of its most profound scenes, it fails to stand out in any other meaningful ways. It's more straightforward and matter-of-fact than the book, and lacks many of the wry grins and quirks that made that original work stand apart. What works in print doesn't always translate so literally to the screen.

Slaughterhouse-Five satirical anti-war film exactly based on the novel George Roy Hill. For the modern viewer, he will seem boring and drawn out, also having a non-linear plot. Surialistically, both concentration camps and Soviet soldiers showed. Events with aliens generally look delusional like a room on another planet. And if the novel Kurt Vonnegut really turned out to be good, then its film adaptation is not very.