The remake can't come soon enough

Rating: Null/10 (1 April 2018)

The two good things about the book are the concept and the plot, and the movie has neither. It does have good performances from the leads, even if some of the character development abandons the source material in disappointing and presumably unnecessary ways-and it is slightly fun to watch if you forget what you should be watching and focus on the pretty lights. In the book, the story is driven by visual detail that celebrates a distinctive period in pop culture that was largely defined by the director; it was ready made to be turned into a movie that should and easily could have been far better than the book. What a sorry twist that such a poorly written book was turned into such a poorly directed movie. Maybe the licensing was just that impossible? Maybe they didn't realize there was an audience for the story in the book? Maybe another iconic eighties director can give it a shot in a few years?