Complex idea inexpertly executed

Rating: 5/10 (1 February 2015)

Putting aside the issues mentioned in previous reviews about how this is a sad reflection on modern film-going tastes, I just found this film disappointing. I found myself saying the same thing I almost always say when watching an adaptation of literary thrillers which is that the director does not have the intelligence to pull it off convincingly, which is why he directs films and doesn't write books. There are so many holes in the plot it resembles a pair of my favourite jeans and the characters are so idiotic and, in the case of the police, plodding that it does the book (which everyone tells me is amazing) and modern police methods a disservice. It is a good example of a well regarded book being rushed into adaptation by the Hollywood sausage factory. Unless all the people I know who have read the book are wrong...