Read the Book

Rating: 2/10 (3 March 2007)

Like the summary says: Read the book. The movie bears no resemblance and the book is excellent. The whole POINT of the book is entirely lost in this "adaptation." (Ever see the move "Adaptation"? There you go.)
DON'T watch this movie. The only resemblance to the book are the character names. The events are not the same, nor the relations of the characters nor the political climate.
The author's intent in the original book is to show mankind without a future, some would say mankind under judgment. The movie makers take that premise but come to wildly different conclusions, and extremely shallow ones at that. So the problem isn't with just the change of details (which can get annoying in any adaptation) but a misdirection of the intent. And THAT should annoy anyone. You can tell the same story in a different manner, but this isn't even the same story. Don't bother.