not pleased.

Rating: 4/10 (2 April 2014)

So I went into the movie excited. I had only finished the book 2 weeks prior so I knew I would be biased and therefore I over-looked the movie's portrayal of the book in order to critic the cinematography. However, I wasn't pleased. I was happy as a clam just to be there and enjoyed myself, but the movie wasn't great. The acting seldom felt genuine, the scenes were extremely choppy, they left no room for any character development and barely felt any room for plot development and included the silliest, cliché parts but not the would-be significant plot-defining parts of the book. The thing I am most disappointed with though is Trice. When I read the book, Shalene (sp?) was exactly who I pictured, but once I got into the theatre, I was sorely disappointed in what I saw.
But I will admit, the action was great and the choppiness was good in the sense that it kept the adrenaline going throughout the movie. The settings and costumes were spectacular and they did do an honest job of trying to put as much of the book into a 2 hour film as was physically possible....?