wonderful entertainment

Rating: 10/10 (22 May 2006)

Great book. Great movie. To anyone who enjoyed the book and have an intelligent open mind, I think you will enjoy this movie. People seem so quick to slam it, but I think it was well cast, directed & edited. The pace was perfect and all set to a wonderful soundtrack.
One of the things I particularly liked about this film was the clever way, wads of text from the book were explained in interesting "cut-away" scenes and also "graphically" highlighted. This made an explanation of what was going on (especially for people who haven't read the book) much easier in an interesting and time-saving way. My partner also commented on the fact that despite covering a great deal of text in the book, the film didn't feel rushed and there were scenes that had plenty of time devoted to them.