Great Book, Great Acting, Horrific Adaptation

Rating: 1/10 (5 February 2007)

Hollywood's done it again. Taken a great novel, loaded with intrigue, characters who draw you in and a sci-fi twist that gives pause, then turns it into blood and gore and 20 mind numbing minutes where literally HUNDREDS are savagely blown apart for no apparent reason. Only the original elements of this novel are held dear--it's the future, they're infertile and the world's clinically depressed. All the details are changed with the same deftness of a popcorn maker. You have to wonder if the adapters were the whizzes they think they are, they would have written the novel more than a decade ago, as did PD James. They didn't, of course. Save your money. Read the book.
On behalf of American film goers (or would be), apologies to PD James. You deserve better.