I hated the book but really enjoyed the movie.

Rating: 8/10 (6 April 2018)

Sorrry to all the book fans out there. I grew up in the 80's and i get all of the cultural references but i gave up on the book after 30% of the plot because absolutely nothing was happening, the main charachter was lame, the competitions were boring and frankly if the movie had seemed anything at all like the book I wouldn't have gone.
So I was greatly relieved to see all the high speed chases, cool effects and actually showing us what was going on.
I was a bt disaapointed that Art3mis wasn't like she was described in the book: "short and rubenesque'. All curves". That would actually be a refreshing look for a female lead. Would it have been so difficult to cast a girl who wasn't thin? I thougt we were growing past that?
Anyway I really liked the way they combined the CGI and real world elements. There were a lot of beautiful visual scenes and i felt the movie wasn't too heavy on the 80's references. Really fun movie in all. I saw it with my husband and teenage kids - who didn't get most of the references but my son who is into Gaming really got and enjoyed a lot of aspects of the gamig world. Fun movie if you aren't there to compare it to the book