Lame movie

Rating: 4/10 (29 January 2014)

As the title says, hurtful to watch. I know it's just kids acting but still... the dialog sucked, even me that haven't read the book could notice that they were moving just too fast with the story line. The acting sucked, from both kids & adults (specially the drill sergeant, he was a joke). Everything just felt so... false and repetitive. Nothing special with the visual effects. There's a scene in which they are marching to training while "singing" at the same time, they must all be very good ventriloquists since you can clearly see their mouths closed but the voices still sound as if they where shouting, so lame to have those kind of mistakes in a movie with this type of budget. Don't know how it managed to get a 7 here, the 3.9 from metacritic sounds more like it. Don't lose your time, unless you have little kids with you.