Interesting, but too Danny Boyle.

Rating: 8/10 (3 April 2000)

I just watched The Beach and I was surprised that it was better than my expectations. Danny Boyle has done a good job with the directing and the d.o.p. was really successful. However, I believe the novel version had more philosophical strength to it, and the film lacked the novel's interesting philosophy. As it's cinema, I guess it's an all right adaptation. However, one must tell Danny Boyle to cut down the amount of first-person narratives, since in The Shallow Grave it was innovative, in Trainspotting it was well-integrated into the narrative, yet now, in The Beach, it's plain boring at times.