Makes it onto my leaderboard of top adventure movies of all time

Rating: 10/10 (29 July 2018)

It's David versus Goliath, good versus evil, boy and girl falling in love whilst being relentlessly chased in a race against time to save the world. On top of this mix in a bucket load of pop culture from the last few decades and sprinkle it with a little Spielberg magic of old and what you get is a future classic destined to be watched every Christmas for years to come, think Goonies pumped full of adrenaline and you won't be far off the mark.
You might be wondering about all the fuss surrounding the differences between the book and the film, and understandably so given the well documented polarising opinions on the subject so I'll say a couple of things on that. I'd like to add I read the book before seeing the film and my friend saw the film before reading the book and we both came to pretty much the same conclusion, both the book and the film are fantastically entertaining and neither devalues the other, this is partly because pop culture is by its very definition so vast and diverse that it would be extremely rare for any individual to have both understood and enjoyed every reference made in either the book or film so both mediums have something for everyone, also, given some of the books content and structure it's plainly obvious why it could never have survived the transition to the silver screen intact, time constraints are a big factor and the budget required for the film is another huge one. Maybe the biggest reason for it's successful transition under its unusual circumstances is the collaboration between the author of the novel and director of the movie in writing the screen play together, probably always on the cards given they are both capable, seasoned screen writers but undoubtedly played a big part in its success.