What was wrong with the original story?

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2000)

Very disappointed with the adaptation of Alex Garland's superb novel. I realise that films are always going to be slightly different to the original story, but what the screen writers did here was unforgivable.
They took the essence of this great story and cut it out, just leaving a confusing jumble of unprovoking scenes, which they then patched together again with a new story which was more like some school kids wet dream.
The acting was average, there was some good cinematography, but generally a classic novel was turned into a quickly forgettable movie.