What makes it different from others?

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

The "Brave New World (TV Movie 1980)" from the BBC was a billion times better, you can find references to that adaptation in IMDbJust watch the BBC version or read the book, there is nothing in this one to redeem itself, awful.The 3 hours long BBC version and the book can be found in the website Huxley dot net at the very bottom, there are the links to the book and the movie Sadly the copy came from a bad VHS, but watchable. There is no better copy as far as I know. A bit cartooned in style, worth it anyway, so the book.Bottom line, do yourself a favor, watch the BBC version or read the book

I never saw the movie, but just read the book. Up until the ending of the book, I truly thought it would end sanely, with something upbeat, kind of like "The Shawshank Redemption." But, alas, it ended like "The War of the Roses," instead.Up to the ending, the book was truly engaging, in a dystopic sense. Huxley's cynicism about the future was huge and grotesque.I can only wonder if the movie brought that out to his level.But, the ending, in my thoughts, should have ended with John away from the insanity, living a good life as a "savage." The others, fulfilling their potential. The girl, instead of driving John to suicide, finally seeing his vision and world view and accepting him and it, and finding real love. Yes! I am a romantic. I'd rather be that than the cynic that was Huxley.

Having just seen the 1980 adaptation, I decided to watch this much-maligned 1998 remake as well. It was significantly better than I'd expected. The points of the original book come across quite well, the actors are quite good (esp. Rya Kihlstedt), and much of the thought-provoking content is retained. Considering how bad I had been led to believe that this was, it was a positive and worthwhile, at times even memorable, surprise.Still, I find have more criticism than praise for this version. It is very low-budget, and so resorts to showing a world far too similar to our own, with a general (and generally nonsensical) setting of skyscrapers, shopping malls and (?) traffic jams. People flying ordinary current-day helicopters and driving ditto cars. The cast of characters, too, has been whittled down to just a few mains, and Bernard Marx, in order to contrast him more with John the Savage (who is for some reason called John Cooper here), is handsome and orthodox, unlike in the book.What we have, then, is a deeply, deeply dumbed down version of the original story, super-simplified for a less intellectual audience, and probably also for the purpose of keeping the budget down.A 7 rating is very generous (and most of the reason is because of the greatness of the original book), but this TV movie actually did hold my attention, and I liked the performances of both Gallagher, Kihlstedt, Ferrer and Nimoy. A few of the changes made to the story (in an attempt to make it more current) were okay, although I'd have to say they were also unnecessary. Still and all, this is something I would buy if it were available on DVD rather than just VHS.7 out of 10.

In the far future the World Controllers decided to build a world without any families and crimes. People are no longer born, they are mass produced. There are five different classes, which differ in intelligence: Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons. The Alphas are the most intelligent people and the Epsilons are the most stupid ones. They are conditioned to believe, that they live a happy life and take the world's perfect drug "soma". Berndard and Lenina are both Alphas and are together since 4 months, although it is not really allowed to have a partner for this long because in the "Brave New World", everyone belongs to everyone else. However one day, they decide to visit an outlying reservation, but crash with their helicopter into it. In this reservation they meet John and his mother, who was previously a part of the Brave New World and take them back into "civilazation"...The plot is not really new. There are already other utopian films like "Brave New World". I like the idea of a character of the "other" world, going into the "new world". You can see where the mistakes are lying in the new system of society. In the film the producers concentrated more on Lenina than on John, like it was in the novel. They really changed Huxley's flat characters into round characters and the ending is quite different in the film, than in the novel. Tim Guinee (John) plays his characters very good, however I imagined a totally other actor for John, maybe a smaller one. As for Bernard (Peter Gallagher) I imagined also a smaller actor for him and not so "good looking", maybe someone like the guy who plays Henry Foster. The best job on the characters did Sally Kirkland (Linda). You really can see that she reflects Linda very well and likes to play her role. BUt in the end I never heard of one single one of the actors for BNW and I think that they should have picked some other actors, but all in all it can be said, that they are not too bad choicesm it could be worse. There were not really special effects from with you can say "Wow, gorgeous!" and the soundtrack is not really unique, too. You can only .hear some techno music and sometimes really soft music, which seems to me, that they can bring your every minitue to sleep and on first sight, I Didn't even realize, that there is this soft music (am I already too good conditioned?). So you can say, that this movie is not really outstanding with elements that make a film unique. I only recommend this film to people who like this genere and want to see what could happen if mandkind wants to create a perfect society without wars and real feelings. But I really hate this movie, I like the novel better