Really Disappointing

Rating: 7/10 (28 November 2005)

I love the book High Fidelity, in fact it may be my favorite book of all time and would for sure be one my top five. Unfortunitely the film is so much worse and lacks in the books narrative which may have been one of the best things about the book, it also simply cuts out everything in the middle of the book and simply goes for the stuff in the first five chapters and the last five. They also make it into more of a romantic comedy than the book was. The casting is pitch perfect, John Cusack is the person I thought of when I read the book, Jack Black and is amazing as Barry as is Catherine Zeta Jones but unfortunately Joan Cusack lacks life, and John Cusack is an actor who needs a great director to really work well and although greatly cast lacks the great director, and so he just really doesn't work. As I said this is a really badly directed movie, and that is part of what ruined it. The visual effects are pretty good but not that good. In all I would advise you to read the novel and to forget about the film.