Hollywood screws yet another author into banality.

Rating: Null/10 (15 August 2004)

I was very apprehensive about seeing this, given Hollywood's track record of totally cheapening, trivialising and ruining great books (with a few notable exceptions). I was right. Once again, nuance of plot, and indeed plot itself is cheerfully thrown out of the window to make yet another soddin' action movie. This in itself wouldn't be so bad if it had resulted in at least a halfway watchable movie, but this film is just pathetic; no dialogue that was worth the name, characterisations that were at best two dimensional, and the all too common reliance on special effects and loud noises to fill in the gaps. It was a total waste of time and money, both mine and the studio's.
Now, if only someone with the ability to understand an author's intention had made this movie, it could possibly have satisfied both Asimov appreciators *and* brain-dead action fans. Sigh. Another lost opportunity.