It's not the book

Rating: 7/10 (28 March 2018)

So I'm disappointed. I loved the book, so much so I read it twice in six months. I loved all the 80s movie references, the movie scenes, the game play. And I was really looking forward to seeing how Spielberg was going to translate it onto screen.
The story takes a huge side step from almost the first 15 mins. I didn't expect a scene for scene replay of the book but I expected more.
Don't get me wrong, the visuals are amazing. And that's what irks me, if Spielberg had made the book,not some semblance of the story of the book, it would have been out of this world. Instead I wished I had seen the movie first and wasn't feeling disappointed.
Good movie but it's not the book.