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Fahrenheit 451 (TV)

HBO Classics

Fahrenheit 451

2018

Ramin Bahrani

Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon, Sofia Boutella, Laura Harrier ...

4.2

1,907

Sci-Fi. Drama Fahrenheit 451 is based on Ray Bradbury's classic novel. In a future where the media is an opiate, history is rewritten and "firemen" burn books, Jordan plays Guy Montag, a young fireman who struggles with his role as law enforcer and with his "mentor", played by Shannon.

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"After a potent start (...) [it] becomes less credible as it develops and ultimately suffers from some fundamental creative missteps that leave it unconvincing in the final stretch."	NEU
United States	Kevin O'Keefe Variety	"There’s enough good, though, especially in Jordan’s performance, to recommend 'Fahrenheit 451', but it’s not the slam-dunk you’d expect of a prestigious adaptation of a great American novel."	NEU
United States	Daniel D'Addario Time	"[It] extinguishes what made the book great (...) This 'Fahrenheit 451' too often feels like an emojified version of its source material (...) Spend the time with a good book instead."	NEG
United States	Matt Zoller Seitz Vulture	"[It] is distinctive, so on-message from one moment to the next, and so scary in both its depictions and implications, that there are times where it feels as if it’s intellectually brutalizing the audience (...) to get them to wake up from a stupor."	POS
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"As a story, it holds together well enough, if a bit too neatly (...) There’s a lack of urgency to the film because it fits so snugly into generic expectations."	NEU
United Kingdom	Gwilym Mumford The Guardian	"Its setting – an authoritarian state where books are illegal – feels rather less compelling in an age when information can be widely disseminated at the swipe of a thumb (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"It works (...) In an era where inconvenient truths are branded as fake, any take on Bradbury’s cautionary tale can’t help but be resonant, and worth seeing."	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"A decent stab at an update of Bradbury’s 1953 novel for the social media age. What’s lacking is the jazzy poetry of the original."	NEU
United States	Brandon Katz The New York Observer	"[It] is a challenging watch in all the right ways and just a couple of the wrong ones (...) The depth helps texture everything that is present and brings Ray Bradbury’s world to life before your eyes."	POS

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