One of the Losers, big time

Rating: 1/10 (26 November 2017)

I have not read the book or seen the miniseries, so I am judging this movie on its own merits. It is terrible.
The plot is routine and flimsy. The dialog is typical Hollywood garbage. In the first half or so we have a bunch of early teens spewing non-stop ever-so-cool repartee and tediously "witty" commentary, laced with total disrespect for all adults, who in this movie all deserve disrespect. In the second half, the dialog loses the repartee and wittiness and becomes simply witless. All the teens besides our heroes are incredibly (I use that word deliberately) mean and vicious.
There is no suspense in the supposedly suspenseful scenes. There is a lot of action, yet the movie seems to drag virtually all the time to the point of seeming interminable about an hour before the end, which is saying something for a movie that is only a little over 2 hours long.
The ending scene is typical feel-good Hollywood silliness with the group bonding and young love sprouting.
For the life of me I cannot grasp what the people who like this movie see in it. My advice is to avoid it. It's terrible.