Book was way better

Rating: 4/10 (18 January 2012)

I really wanted this movie to be better than it was. But I guess it's hard to compare to the book, which is much better. Too many predictable conventions.
Not saying it was really bad, just so-so and competent, and not terribly good.
I thought Nick Nolte was passable, but some of the dialog was unneeded. Film is after all a visual medium. There has to be a better way to show a story like this. But at least they tried, and that is worth something.
Watch this on cable or DVD if you don't have anything else to watch, but you want to remember what was possible with the book.