Great book, ordinary movie

Rating: 7/10 (3 November 2013)

The movie is not really bad, but I expected so much more. Hard to say what ruined it for me. The director maybe? Some scenes made me laugh although they were not supposed to be funny. It was like I was watching something from an acting school when the actors don't really nail their parts yet. Asa Butterfield was great, though. Harrison Ford... well I've never been his greatest fan. Ben Kingsley was a bit weird, i think they should have used him more and better. Again, I don't't think the director loved this movie enough to make it great. I was a bit disappointed. Special effects were nice. The training battles were good. But the relation between the main characters was not well depicted.