What was wrong with this film?

Rating: 5/10 (13 September 2000)

I loved the book with its shock ending. What was wrong? 1) Francoise isn't captivating 2) Stupid,irrelevent jealousy scenes 3) too faithful to the book to be a good film, but not faithful enough in the critical points.4) Caprio is wrong actor 5) The thing about the book is that Richard gradually goes bonkers, but you don't realise it till he's insane. In the film they don't know how to do this
Sorry the film somehow didn't capture Thailand, back-packing it was flat, I was keen for the credits to roll.