Worth a watch if you haven't read the book

Rating: 5/10 (3 September 2016)

I'm going to be cliché here and say as usual it's not as good as the book.
Emilia Clarke is a great actress but I just couldn't take her seriously with her crazy eyebrows. I understand in the book that she's a little over the top but it took any serious scenes away from what it should be focusing on.
The key element for me is that they left so much important information out. I know they have to cut it short but there is vital things that watchers should see. 1, There was no real pressure in the film from the parents to take the job as in the book the finances are so bad she has no option than to stick at it. 2, In the book, Will is very rude. Not just a little sarcastic as he is in the film, he is down right rude to Lou in the beginning and this should have been portrayed so you could see exactly how he changes and grows to love her. 3, it shows Will as being abit of a child pre accident with the daft video clip they played. In the book you grow to imagine him being somewhat of a Christian Grey sort of character... Very masculine and very important. He lived life to the brim and travelled the world. 4, it fails to mention that Will tried to kill himself prior to the agreement. It also fails to show Wills argument with reference to his decision. You begin to sympathise with him in the book as he has a vital argument. This doesn't shine through in the film. There is still so much anger with him in the book and this is lost. It totally skips when she reveals about the maze and when he opens up to tell her how scared he is of how his body will be. 5, Mrs Traynor doesn't take to Lou in the book. She's angry at Will. She's a soft character in the film and that's a shame. One of the reasons we take to Lou is that no matters what obstacles come in the situation she sticks with him. 6, finally, where the hell was the empathy in the Switzerland scene? This is meant to be the man she loves, but I couldn't see a single tear in the film. I bawled at the book because that love really shines through and how devastated she is that she has thrown her love at him and it still isn't enough. It could have been done with much more taste and got the viewers going a little more.
It's a bit of a shame as all the big names are there. And the book is great. Maybe it's the way it was directed or how it was written in the script. There was a lack of chemistry there for me with them both also which didn't help. I didn't feel like they were in love at all.
It's worth a watch if you haven't read the book,but if you have be prepared to be disappointed.