Sticking to the book is not a bad thing at all

Rating: 9/10 (3 January 2005)

I hear a lot of people complain that this film is just the same as the book. Personally I can't see how that's a bad thing. After seeing huge liberties taken with the work of some of my other favourite authors such as Tom Clancy and Tolkien I think it's a relief to see a film that tells the same version of the story that became a hit. When I read a book I do picture how it might look on screen but I don't sit there thinking, "I wonder how this would look if the director decided to add his own spin on it. I imagine seeing it the way it's described in the book. This film provides an exceptional visualisation of the story that fans of the book have come to love. After all, if the version in the book wasn't good enough, it wouldn't have become popular enough to be made in to a film in the first place.