a shame !

Rating: 2/10 (29 June 2006)

it is a lesson in butchering a book !
in turning a rich book into a soap opera film by removing all the substance of the story ! important characters have been cut , even the marten is not here !worse : the very personality of the main characters has been changed !
the casting is ridiculous ! with maybe the exception of john hurt and morrissey ( although his role is badly written) Nicholas Cage is totally ridiculous , too old for the part , too " American" and penelope cruz just cant act ! the directing is poor , even the costumes are wrong !
all the people who participated in this " thing" should be ashamed of themselves ! I have never been so furious in my life ! no need to say how much I have loved the book which i discovered last year only - it was not a big hit in France . So as a previous message puts it : read the book !!!