A predictable wreckage

Rating: 5/10 (2 June 2000)

It was predictable. The book is such a masterpiece, one really couldn't imagine how ANY director would deal with it. The result is obviously very mediocre and rather dull. Cronenberg was once supposed to attack this monument and even he gave up. The sadistic material is impossible to show in a film and it is at the same time absolutely necessary. Some scenes are not that bad, but it's only because they make you think of the book. Nobody should take the blame for that wreckage, the mission was truly impossible.