It was.....OK

Rating: 6/10 (22 December 2015)

If I didn't read the book before watching this movie, both my review and my rating would be different. The movie is great, and deserves everyone ounce of praise it has received. Great acting, great directing, great pretty much.. everything.
The problem here lays withing the fact that I read the book before watching this movie. Because of that I notice things that were left out of the book, that I honestly would have loved to have seen. Plus, having some of those things would have made the movie flow a little more smooth.
Two characters from the book were left out. I could think of one scene in particular with this character; it may not have made that much of a difference in the movie, but the scene would have been awesome.
Scenes do have to be changed, I get it. Some scenes had much more impact on pages than on screen. Jimmy killing Dave in the end. In the book they very subtly told you that Jimmy cut him with a knife. It wasn't *stab stab stab*. It almost had you wondering if Dave was ever cut at all, then shot. It just made the scene much more intense IMO.
I really did like the movie overall; but because I loved the book so much, some scenes had my eyes wandering to other random things going on, like, why did Jimmy walk outside, put on his glasses, then two seconds later take them back off. Stupid, I know.
I highly recommend the movie, and highly recommend the book even more.