I've never read the book so I'm reviewing the movie based on seeing it and hearing about it for the first time.. yeah I'm sure the book is better than the film but I'm just judging it by how entertaining it was. The movie was dark and it explores the dark sides of being a human being, getting addicted to pleasure and beauty and how far someone will go to maintain those things, it is sort of relatable to real life and how we always strive for pleasure and our innocence changes. The lead actor was great, you can see him changing throughout the film, he swings between being good and being bad and everything in-between. The movie has a lot of violence and sex, so those who get easily offended by nudity and violence should not watch it; it captures the dark adult themes, just like how Oscar Wilde originally imagined it to be although it was heavily censored at the time due to how vulgar it was back in the old days. Overall, I recommend this movie, it's a good dark film, a very dark and classic adult Victorian fairy tale that captured the true work of Oscar Wilde. I think some give it a low rating because it wasn't the same as the book, others give it a low rating because if the sex and violence, well first if all as I've said, the book was censored and they had to change things and this was how Oscar Wilde originally imagined it.
