very good

Rating: 8/10 (12 October 2013)

Great film and great acting - would have given it a 10 but for the fact that Tom Hanks sounded like he was speaking in tongues when he was playing Zachary- really hate this - it is as bad as books with unpronounceable character names (anything that makes you stop to try to pronounce spoils the smooth reading) By the way saw it at cinema first then on DVD and was the same in both. My partner agrees but thinks that quality of the sound was to blame - if so filmmakers pull your socks up. Dramatically it works much better in the film than in the book as the characters weave their way through the film instead of being chopped off. Also using Tom Hanks at both beginning and end of the film was brilliant - (apparently the author agrees)