Why did I bother ..... Zzzzzzzz

Rating: 3/10 (26 February 2018)

Clearly a lot of marketing has been spent on fake reviews as this film in my opinion doesn't deserve the ratings it has been getting. I went to see this on the opening weekend Atlanta and the screening was less that 10% full (It was actually 8% as I asked the concierge as I left)
I had read the book before and found it to be utterly dull and ultimately felt like I was wading through treacle to reach the end, only to find the end really was worth it. But that said the book had a fairly good idea at the center even if the story didn't delivery on the idea very well.
So when I had seen a film adaptation was coming out, I thought there is no way a director is going to just turn the book into a film, as the film would bomb on the big screen if it were a straight adaptation.
While the film isn't a straight adaptation of the book, and does deviate from the original story, it seems the director somehow managed to lift the dull lifeless aspects of the book and bring that to the screen interspersed with a couple of shock moments to wake the film goer up, if they haven't left already. The director has clearly chosen to put there own interpretation of the source material which is a positive thing, so why the hell they chose to make the film as lifeless and dull as the book is beyond me, and like the book, the film, fails to build on the characters and as a result I had no interest in what happened to them. In fact I was only into the film about 15 mins when I had started to realize this film was looking like a lemon and by the time I was halfway through I was clock watching to see how long was left.
If you read the book and enjoyed it, you may be put off by how different the characters are, or by how the settings and story have changed to be adapted to the big screen. But ii you enjoyed wading through treacle and 1 dimensional characters of the book then you will probably love it.
If you didn't like the book, then you might just come out of this asking why did I waste 2 hrs on that
Net result, like the book - great concept at the center of the story that fails to deliver on its core concept.