Worst Ever Adaptation Of A Novel

Rating: Null/10 (25 June 2000)

What were they thinking? In all fairness, it would be nearly impossible to render Joseph Heller's classic anti-war novel into a feature length film. But what really annoyed me was that entire characters, and may I add rather significant characters such as Dori Duz and General Peckam were left out altoghether. As a result, the movie makes no sense. In the novel we can understand Colonel Cathcart's motivation for raising the number of missions. Here, it just looks like he is doing it for the sake of doing it. I give Alan Arkin credit for trying, but please read the book and skip this incoherent mess.