Generally enjoyable, but not if you are a hardcore book fan

Rating: 7/10 (3 April 2018)

I found the movie to be a mixed bag. I went to see it with five people. Two, including myself, are big fans of the book, and three others who had not read the book. The movie deviates substantially from the book, reminiscent of "I, Robot" with Will Smith and it's lack of connection to Isaac Asimov's books. In other words, they kept the broad brush strokes the same but changed everything else. To be fair, a book to movie conversion is tough at any time, but the two of us that had read the book thought the movie was a bit juvenile and silly. One of our five liked it, and the other two weren't impressed. I feel I'm being generous giving it a seven out of ten.
The movie was very "Speilberg-ish" in feel, lots of bad guys chasing innocent kids, some comic relief, over the top chases and so on. Ben Mendelsohn as Sorrento didn't work for me. As a bad guy, he seemed to much like the bumbling bad guy from a kids movie that we've seen so much of before. The romance seemed rushed and unrealistic.
The Oasis didn't work for me, and the overall impression is of an attempt to check off as many familiar boxes from the book as possible, but in the process, messing up the flow of the story.
It would make a decent movie to watch on Netflix, but that's it.