The Book Thief

Rating: 4/10 (11 February 2016)

Well all I can really say i s the director and screenplay writer have done an extremely hard job in order to ruin a magnificent script and turn it into a drab, boring and below average movie. The movie started off with death as a narrator as it is in the novel, things didn't last that way. As we went ahead with the movie the massacre started. I have seen each and every important detail in the book being reedited and changed into something that is not even half as good. The choice of the actors to represent the characters was acceptable in the cases of Hans Hubermann depicted by Geoffrey Rush and Rudy Steiner by Nico Liersch. The other picks were a failure in my perspective. Rosa Hubermann for example was way too nicer than its original character by Mark Zusak and showed more affection than what was expected. Moving on we see the scenes of Max Vandenburg and here would be my least favorite part. The scenes were meant to contain his illness and suffering , and Leisel's compassion through out his tiresome illness. It simply wasn't depicted in the right way and was dragged allover as if the director was seeing the events as a rather superficial stray of events. The tendency of the director to avoid portraying any scenes of violence that were written in the novel was quite shocking. Whipping, spanking , slapping , kicking , wrestling , boxing to mention a few were edited out of the script marring an already quite drab scenario. To sum up the performances of Geoffrey Rush and Nico Liersch were the only dim-lights in a rather dark room. Honestly I won't recommend the movie for anybody who have loved the novel which is considered one of the best of all time.