not adequate at all

Rating: 3/10 (22 May 2002)

This one was a serious disappointment.
I admit that the designs, costumes and the cast were quite good, but there was almost nothing of the book in there. It seems to me that guy who wrote the script thought of nothing but the visual effects. He made a checklist of the scenes in the book and checked it off. You can almost hear the pencil scratching the checkmark while watching the movie. The characters are flat, unlike that in the book and there is no development.
The visual effect are quite good, but they make the film nothing better. I shudder to think what these people make out of the second and third book. They are much much darker than the first and there is much less comical relief. I hope that the script writer is up to his job this time or the Chamber and the Prisoner will be terrible.