This Is What Every Reader Dreads

Rating: 3/10 (28 November 2014)

This. Right here. This is what happens when a decent book gets re-imagined into a poorly adapted script and film. This is why I'd rather read and avoid these book-to-movie adaptations. The "essence" of the story gets slaughtered. There are so many plot holes in this movie because it would've been an hour of nothing but world building and explaining the need for the factions so that non readers could make heads or tails of it. Never mind bland, soulless characterizations due to no time being given to character development. That was not going to happen. This book was never going to make sense to a non reader. It just came off as in-congruent gibberish on film.
I wish Hollywood would stop screwing with the YA books. Really. Just because a book is amazing does not mean it will translate to an amazing film. With a handful of notable exceptions, this usually does not turn out well.