Horrible Casting and Screenplay-Read Book Instead!

Rating: 6/10 (18 February 2003)

Cage (Corelli), Cruz (Pelagia), Bail (Mandras)- all poor choices for the characters they played...Cage especially...I hated the faked accent so much that it really ruined a lot of it for me. Plus, Cage and Cruz didn't have the chemistry to match what was in the book...I missed the romance development- which if I hadn't read the book, would have been puzzling. Carlo's whole story got cut out, and the ending was glossed over and entirely different...I was really disappointed to see such a beautiful (book) story ruined by poor development and poor character choice's...the extreme's in the book, were just not there, and I never really got attached to the characters because they were not good fits...Well, all I can say is I am very dissappointed with the movie...It could have been so much better had someone tried, but instead, it was too Hollywood influenced...