Only just worse than the book

Rating: 3/10 (28 May 2006)

After seeing the film and reading some of the comments on this board I just had to let a flow of anger proceed through my finger tips!!!! First of all for all the people who say how great this book is!!!! This book wan generally written for people who don't really read many books. I admit yes as a thriller it served its purpose of being fast paced and lots of things happening however....the characters were two dimensional and there was little in the way of their development. All that seemed to be happening would be they would run around from one location to the next and solve another riddle!!!! And three pages should not constitute a chapter. I am a teacher and have taught 11yr olds who have written better and longer. However this book seems to have grabbed something in a lot of people and made them read so fair play to it for that!!!!! Now onto the film and I am afraid to be frank that it is an absolutely dull affair. This was agreed by the people who I went with (who incidentally had not read the book). The characters yet again had no development and they could have quite easily died and I would not have cared less. In fact there appeared to be no chemistry between the two main characters what so ever!!!! Yet again we just seemed to be following people solving what only can be described as Crystal Maze!!! Where was Richard O'Brian??? He would have been better than Tom Hanks. Hmmm poor casting I feel!!!! Some very cheesy lines were delivered in this feel which did not help and some parts lacked any explanation between the relationships of the characters and what was happening i.e. the two main characters, the bank manager kidnapping them, teabing and butler. Many loose ends.
As to some other posts which mention the controversial nature of the film toward religion!!! Yes its fiction as correctly identified by others but unfortunately in todays society we have some real plebs who think its real!!! I have had many conversations with people saying "How can you believe in Jesus after reading that?" and I simply reply "BECAUSE ITS BLOODY FICTION!!!!!" Thankyou Rant over