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Rating: 3/10 (3 December 2011)

This could have been a 5 but there was some really bad acting in parts of it by most everyone (except maybe Anthony Hopkins), bad CG, too much unneeded sex scenes, and just plain corny. It is so frustrating when a movie has much potential but either the director was asleep during shooting scenes or the wrong clips ended up on the editing floor. What a waste of two hours. The characters were so much different than the personalities in the book. I never understood why John aged a lot in the movie, but then became young again at the end. I expected so much more from Coppola. There was some edginess that I liked, but some of the special effects were just dumb effects. He should have watched it