Shockingly awful.

Rating: Null/10 (1 June 2005)

This is quite possibly, the worst film I've ever seen (second only to How to Lose a Guy in Ten days, if not joint-first.) The plot and acting and entire contrived manner in which it was publicised and made, all make me shudder looking back.
I haven't seen it since I went to see it at the cinema when it was out, several years ago, but I can still remember my utter disappointment and anger at being forced to sit through such a dire film. The ending was definitely the worst film ending I've ever seen.
I have no interest in the books now, and a film that can successfully put one off it's books is a bad one to say the very least. Cage was unconvincing, and Cruz came across badly in a strange way. I had no recollection of John Hurt until I re-read the cast list just now; but I'm shocked that he was part of such a ruthless endeavor to massacre yet another literary masterpiece.