books-to-movies

Rating: Null/10 (8 May 2004)

If you can get past the fact that this movie departs from Robert Ludlum's book after about 10 minutes, it's fun. My son and I were both expecting the same story so we were quite irked. The tv movie with Richard Chamberlain and Jacklyn Smith was very close to the book.
I'll be interested to see how the sequel works, since the ending of the movie had no relationship whatever to the book. But what the heck, First Blood the novel killed Rambo and the movie, shall we say, did not.
I liked everything about the movie except the ruination of the story. But I also have noclue how wet work, black ops and so on are done, despite growing up a few miles from Langley, VA, and being taught by the wives of the men who ran it.