Feels so rushed

Rating: 2/10 (26 June 2020)

If you're a fan of the book, you'll hate this movie. If you haven't read the book, it's unlikely you'll even fully understand it! And for the same reason.
The whole thing feels rushed like its a summary of a much longer film. From the quick and pretty uninformative conversations to the shallow characters with literally zero development. Even the music score feels like it was added as an afterthought to give this "previously on.." a sense of urgency as you wait to see what's going to happen on today's episode.

I get that its a relatively short film based on a quite meaty and at times philosophical book. I understand that they had to leave out several sub-plots and a few minor character arcs. I'm fine with that. But I'm not ok with ignoring the development of the titular character and completely changing his personality. And I'm not ok with a movie making no sense unless you have read the book.

The source material would have been much more suited to a miniseries style adaptation, or perhaps no adaptation at all. But it certainly fails dramatically as a film.