The Long Walk, the newest screen adaptation of a Stephen King novel, is enjoyable enough for its depiction of the harrowing conditions in which it places its characters, and for the excellent cast embodying them. But director Francis Lawrence’s latest effort feels like an imitator of the director’s own wildly popular Hunger Games franchise – itself based on the bestselling series written by Suzanne Collins – which is ironic, considering the source material for The Long Walk was published decades before Collins ever put pen to paper.
