Awful awful movie

Rating: 5/10 (18 April 2013)

I don't normally do movie reviews but the other non-reviews are all about how it deviates from the books.
The discussion to whether it's faithful to the source or not is completely separate to the quality of the movie, and this is simply a very very bad one.
The movie keeps trying to find a ground between a cheesy teenage drama and a boring action movie. It's obviously trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator and in the end it can only be enjoyed because that even below all the bad writing and directing the source dimly shines out.