I'm one of those who have read the book

Rating: 3/10 (17 December 2018)

And if you haven't, you should too before you believe my review is unfair in any way.
You will probably thank me if you do read it ;)
First of, the book is awesome. Well written and one of my best reads ever. With that said the movie was a big letdown.
As most of us who compare the movie with the book I also understand the challenges of creating a movie based on a great book, but hey come on! This was so horrendously Hollywoodified (read simplified), which in itself is not always a bad thing when reaching out to the big mass but it starts to become soo mind-numbingly boring to not mention sad to see great books being crammed into the same format again and again and again ...
And for the people going "it's hard to get all the stuff from the book into only one movie"
I agree, but they choose the wrong angle here I think. They should have made two, maybe three movies. Then we could have had something really nice going. But as it stands, I feel generous rating this movie a 3/10
Even if you are not a book person, read it anyway, or listen to the audio book. Watch this movie when you are super bored or greatly hung over and need something easy to rest your eyes on while having your brain on standby.