Terrible- at least for anyone who has read the book. If you haven't, GO READ THE BOOK NOW.

Rating: 2/10 (3 July 2014)

I watched this, and I could barely make it through the movie. Which is quite different to when I read the book.
I read the book in one day. When I finished the book, I was utterly speechless. For literally about an hour. And in that hour, in my head I went over every thing again. Every single aspect of the book. The foreshadowing. The characters I loved. The plot. The ending. The tragically beautiful ending.
First off, the movie does not follow the book. It went through nearly half the book in the first thirty minutes. It left out important facts, scenes, and changed so many things.
For example, in the book Rudy met Liesel by playing soccer. And throwing a snowball at her face. In the movie, Rudy met Liesel by lying and saying that his mother asked him to walk her to school. Now, yes, in the book Rudy did walk her to school- but it actually *was* because Barbara Steiner told her kids to walk with her.
They completely left out the fact that Rudy and Liesel joined a gang to steal things. Or how when Liesel found Rudy, he was already dead. He did not die in her arms.
And Death barely speaks in the movie, it is almost pointless to have him included at all.
For how much they changed, how much they left out, and the fact that the Actors and Actresses looked nothing how I personally imagined them, and the fact that I can't see how anyone who hadn't read the book can follow along with this movie at all, I can only rate this a two.