Thought I'd dozed off a couple of times

Rating: 2/10 (31 May 2006)

Just seen this film and thought it demonstrated just how average this very successful book really was. The story that was transferred to the screen was dreary and the script and characters were very wooden. You know there's something very wrong when not even a couple of great actors like Hanks and McKellen can bring their characters to life.
There were a couple of times in the movie when I thought I'd dozed off as a fairly obscure piece of information in one scene suddenly becomes established fact in the next.
It felt to me like the intention of the director was to get to the end of the film as fast as possible touching base with the book as briefly as possible; fortunately that was exactly what I wanted too after the first 10 minutes or so.